I found a love letter in the forest today. It was worn and yellowed with age, nestled into a cozy opening in a tree. The envelope was dirtied as well, …
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Creative Writing
Music to My Ears
There were precisely 32 steps from the foot of their new apartment building to the crooked mat of suite 21b. Elizabeth and her mother had moved the third of January, …
The Tree of Theresa
On a mountain whose peak was the beacon to the warm town of Aldeboden, there was a tree. It was a patchy forest that was bare in the winter months. …
Melodies of War Part 3
For months I hid below the barricades, where the only things keeping me sane were Stefan’s check-ins and the music in my head, which moved my body inside the cell …
Chapter One: The Genesis of the Exodus
(An introductory excerpt from The Bay-Glade Chase) In the book of Genesis, God outpoured from the heavens a merciless rainfall, which lasted forty days to eliminate all unrighteous beings from …
Melodies of War Part 2
Again, the moon rose above our town that night, but this time, I was not on my way to the theatre, but on the train into the unknown, not only …
The Vulture
The harsh rays of the desert sun scorch the feathers on my wings. But I fly even closer to the source of this brutal heat, so as not to entangle …
The Father’s Arms
“Welcome home, Alma.” I hear a warm voice say, peculiarly coming from all around me. Though my eyelids are closed, I can feel a soft radiance enveloping me like a …
I Can’t Sleep
“Try not to think,” the YouTube video says. That, in itself, requires thinking. Seriously, who comes up with these? Every day, I dread the moment I finish my homework and …
What Makes You Crazed
“Welcome, Bradford, or should I say, inmate #1284.” Bradford was dragged into the examination room; he spat at the doctor. “What could you possibly want, Doctor Han, or should I …