Slowly coming to her senses and into the foreground, the revolving sound of an emergency siren echoed off the small pods walls.
Riley, barely conscious from her long hypersleep, estimated it had probably been going off for the past 36 hours. Her hypersleep tube was already opened.
She began to lift herself up slowly and saw that the hypersleep tube next to her’s was damaged. Like something had...
I’ve started attending this university as a freshman while he’s been here a long time. As my new roommate, he doesn’t ask me questions about myself but I recognize him immediately.
He talks a lot. Mostly about his job at the local pizza shop and shows me pictures of a few celebrities who have visited.
He doesn’t know that I’m that high school freshman who “beat him up” after school six ago. An...
“So, who’s going to die today?” yelled the boss as if we deserved to be reprimanded. He was cowered behind the rock having already felt the unexpected sting of being shot in the leg with a paintball and was really “pissed-off.”
I’m still a new employee and this was meant to be a fun Saturday company event. Last Friday afternoon, the boss himself insisted we all show up the following morning in S...
“I was just trying to be what you wanted.” He replied in his own defense standing out on the street in the pouring rain.
Even more furious, she glared at him ready to strike. “Go be with her!” She snapped with a smirk then almost stumbled in a drunken stupor. “You’re using me!”
“I didn’t do anything! You’re drunk again. This has nothing to do with me.” He replied wiping the water from his face ...
There it is! I’ve finally made it. Zzyzx Road.
Damn! The ground is scorching hot. I can handle it though. If I follow this dirt road, they said I’d find the best and biggest abandoned watering hole in the Mojave Desert known to insect, just short of Vegas. And that I wouldn’t want to leave.
On foot, the road went on forever.
A week later, I came upon a huge crucifix-shaped neglected but hal...
I don’t know how they, Hades, Ares and Kakia, those evil ancient gods, found me but they did! And their monsters are probably a half-day’s journey behind. Because we are going in circles, I can smell them.
Those evil gods must be begging permission from Zeus himself for free reign inorder to challenge me more directly. Probably to stop me, a mortal, from reaching the underworld. That must be why...
Out of all days, I picked this one to wear my new Tommy Bahama shirt and these cheap dollar store flip-flops. And I forgot my umbrella.
I have 20-seconds to get out of my car and cross this large parking lot to surprise everyone with coffee and donuts at my 6 a.m. AA meeting before it starts.
Again! I’m scared. My body reacts with a sudden jolt. Another echoing and vibrating “B-O-O-M-M-M!” soun...
I don’t admit it but
Here I am
for now
Like a little boy
With arrested development
Wandering back to you
Your embrace
Are you laughing at me
I stumble at the sight
Of your beauty
I’m immature
with unrealistic boundaries
You’re too old for me
But beautiful
The looks, the looks
Old Aunt Eve warned me about
I went for the looks
You’re smart and wise
You have money
Lots of it and I don’t.
You tr...
“He doesn’t deserve to know ya!” He said bitterly.
I remained silent to gather my thoughts. I wasn’t talking to that 18 year old I used to know. We are now in our fifties.
“You’re so much older now and so am I. What are you afraid of? There are people here from my past that I don’t care to see.”
A few familiar female faces walked passed us and smiled upon entering the restaurant. The warm bea...
Lots of little rain drops.
Like counting grains of sand.
Wishes come-at-once.
All of them at-hand.
Say what you want.
Disregard the rest.
They keep-on com’in
That’s the real test.
Feel them with your hand.
Wishes big-and-small.
I wish I could say it.
There’s really none at’ll.
They’ve gotta feel like rain.
For wishes to come true.
Another sad day.
Why am I so blue.
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