June 25th, 2007 I should write more. Truth is I don’t know where to even start these days. I’m hoping this weekend maybe will help. It’s been a long time since I tried to write, and even longer since I’ve spent time in the woods. It all looks unfamiliar to […]
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Theme Thursday: Trust
The noise of the crowded casino was deafening, but some languages are universal. Like the way Maddi slung herself over the man, her chest pushed up against his back as he leaned over the roulette table. She swallowed back a gag at the stench of the pack a day smoker […]
Theme Thursday: Survival
I stared up at the coffee shop door and sucked in a deep breath. It’s just coffee. Just because she used a lot of emojis in her message doesn’t mean anything. Lots of people overuse emojis. Shouldering my bag like it was armor, I pushed the door open… And nearly […]
Theme Thursday: Clarity
The low hum of the buggy gave fits and starts as I navigated roads that hadn’t been traversed since my parent’s time. Marius drifted in and out of consciousness next to me on the canvas seat. I tried to shut out the stab of regret for leaving my family’s territory again, but it was all too real to see the groves of my childhood pass by.
Theme Thursday: Resolve
Seven hours had passed. If he was going to return he would have by now.
My stomach hadn’t been able to settle. I should have never left him to fend for himself. But he’d made his choice. And I’d made mine.
Going back was the last thing I wanted to do, but leaving his body to rot in a dried-up canal was not an option. The thought of it sent a wave of agony through me. I had to go back.
Theme Thursday: Effigy
Soft chants and the swishing of the druids’ robes were the only sounds from the procession. At its head the priestess carried a torch of alder, murmuring low prayers to the gods with misty breaths. Tonight’s Beltane fires would see many more fervent prayers before it was done. They carried […]
Theme Thursday: Acceptance
Daniel Anderson woke up gasping for air. Heavy breaths rushed out of him, adrenaline racing. Slowly he came to recognize the cotton sheets clutched in his hands.
Theme Thursday: Shiver: Birthright
The wind whistling through the bare forest cut me to the bone. The snow was falling faster now. I stared up at the skeletal branches overhead in despair. My jaunt through the woods to the seer’s hut had turned to a trudge. I feared I would be frozen solid by […]
Theme Thursday: Shiver: Daniel Anderson
I tore my eyes away from the comms. The feed wouldn’t be stopping any time soon, much like the ringing in my ears. It was a searing reminder deep in my gut that I shouldn’t be there. I shouldn’t be alive.
Theme Thursday: Hush
When I found her she was smiling. The slick cavern walls curved around the Wishing Pool and there at its heart she stood. I scrambled breathlessly into her lair. The chase was over. My dreams had been filled with finding the woman who’d appeared to me night after night, the […]