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  • Life’s Cheaper After Midnight

    The night I decided to become a better person was the same night I learned how cheaply a human life could be priced, especially my own. It was my first night working at the QuikStop, and the strange manager, Bernard,… Continue reading

    Life’s Cheaper After Midnight
  • Surprise Party

    “I didn’t mean to kill him,” Marla said, setting her coffee cup on the counter, “but in my defense, I didn’t know he would surprise me like that.” It was quite the jam they were in now. Her affair partner,… Continue reading

    Surprise Party
  • Psychic Change

    “I think I’m having a spiritual experience.” It was not the first time Perry had said this. And it certainly wouldn’t be the last. They were sitting in the run-down diner on Main Street, the overhead light flickering on and… Continue reading

    Psychic Change
  • Grateful for This Body

    I love these legs that carry meDown winding roads, through fields and streetsThey bear my weight so faithfullyAnd make each journey feel complete I love these ears that open wideTo morning birds and whispered graceTo laughter spilling like a tideTo… Continue reading

    Grateful for This Body
  • The Vanishing Years – Part 4

    Previously on The Vanishing Years … The Lydia Fairfax case had become a media circus with national headlines, cameras everywhere, her family playing their roles for the public. But off-camera, their indifference was unsettling, and the trail of elderly women… Continue reading

    The Vanishing Years – Part 4
  • Perfect As It Is

    A gentle wind stirs the treesBirdsong weaves a radiant chorusGolden light spills through the branchesMorning opens with quiet promise If I could change this momentI would not dareIt is perfect as it is Continue reading

    Perfect As It Is
  • The Beggar’s Cathedral

    No one remembered when he arrived. The old man in the tattered robe, barefoot even in frost, appeared one All Souls’ Eve at the edge of the village wood, where the fog hung low and the soil remembered blood. His… Continue reading

    The Beggar’s Cathedral
  • The Angel Without Light

    When you wander through the endless night, the memory of day dissolves. The sun is no longer a friend but an adversary, a blazing tyrant whose touch scorches without mercy. I have not felt its light for … who can… Continue reading

    The Angel Without Light
  • Child of God

    The spider crawls across its weba quiet architect in the autumn sun I should feel fearyet wonder takes its place From a distance, I bow to this creaturea child of God, as I am too Weaving each thread with patient… Continue reading

    Child of God
  • Rise Again

    Let your heart break openOn the holiest of nights Weep for the injusticeCry out for the painHowl against the cruelty of the world And when its overrise again Wipe the tears awayBrush the dust off your body Plant your feet… Continue reading

    Rise Again