I love the rain. I love the anticipation in the air before it starts. I love watching as the first drops paint the surfaces a darker color than they were. I love the smell of rain even when it smells like worms but especially when it smells like clean. I love when it is warm…Read more Raining
Stories
Dream a little Dream
It was a quiet morning. Lilly and I sat on the couch while I drank my coffee and scratched behind her ears. It isn’t particularly anything outside. It is grey, the snow is half melted so there is no majestic twinkling coming off of the white snow and the grass showing is more brown than…Read more Dream a little Dream
Ghosts
The furniture is moved around, the Christmas tree is lit up but not yet decorated, the dog is curled up peacefully in her bed next to it. Snow flitters past the window and hot chocolate warms my throat. Suddenly every hair on my arm stands straight up as I feel cold fingers brush along my…Read more Ghosts
Happy Holidays, A Storm is coming
Congratulations everyone! We’ve made it through the first holiday of the holiday season with our stomachs only slightly stretched out and hopefully lots of love for our extended family intact. Only one more huge feast, or at least one more day of feasts with full houses to go and then on to the kiss at…Read more Happy Holidays, A Storm is coming
The Last Pearl: 10 Pearls Final Part
I don’t know what exactly it was this morning that inspired me to pull down that glass dish. The light hit it in a way that it shined in my peripheral vision and I just couldn’t ignore it or maybe some subconscious trigger pulled me in its direction but I am happy that it did.…Read more The Last Pearl: 10 Pearls Final Part
Alien War with your Coffee?
After voting today I decided I would reward myself with a coffee, not a regular coffee I could make at home but some frothy, rich concoction that only a coffee shop could provide. I drove the ten minutes to my favorite coffee place and I was looking at some of the pastries they had displayed…Read more Alien War with your Coffee?
Sneak Peek: Chapter from Goblins
Reminiscing: Avta As I drove away from the station I thought about the aliens possessing those men. I should’ve realized when I touched him that the body snatcher wasn’t a human. Humans show us feelings when we touch them. He showed intentions, plans. We learn something different from each organism we touch. It…Read more Sneak Peek: Chapter from Goblins
