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Fired
Old Scratch was displeased. The sky above him was scorching as he set eyes on the border between his realm and the human world. They sickened him. He tried to avoid the humans, and really only ventured into their domain when his daughter had been away too long, but as his home faded into the…
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Summer Time Is Through
Everybody started getting sick when they came. The town was filled with coughs and the last, wretched breaths of dying men and women. The children were spared. Nobody knew why, but as they watched their parents pass out from the pain and slowly succumb to the sickness, the children each felt a guilty sense of…
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Summer Time Is Through
Everybody started getting sick when they came. The town was filled with coughs and the last, wretched breaths of dying men and women. The children were spared. Nobody knew why, but as they watched their parents pass out from the pain and slowly succumb to the sickness, the children each felt a guilty sense of…
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Satisfied
“Go to bed.” He repeated, aching to look away from the mountain of paperwork on his desk, and hoping she would be pouting down at him. “I won’t tell you again.” He focused his eyes on the documents and tried to ignore the familiar fingers that had found his neck. “I’m not tired.” He kept…
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Chain Smoking
It wasn’t ever personal, until you were the only person I could think of, unintentional, so impractical, I began speaking in clichés and dreamy drooling. My eyes carved out, spinning wildly on the staff room table, as I placed marble hearts, where they used to reside. I had a lovely time, watching you chain smoke,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 