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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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The Sun Is Shining
Rebecca. Hey Rebecca, it’s your Dad. Why are you cooped up in there? I know you think you have to stay inside, but that’s silly. I’ve told you not to watch too much of that stuff. It’s making you paranoid. It’s a lovely day out here. The sun is shining. It’s so warm. Come outside,…
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Flashback – You Belong To Me
She told me it was all over and now I think that’s true. I was freaked out, but I assumed it was a joke or a prank, and now I’m not so sure. Why can I still hear her? Can you? Can you hear her? If you haven’t heard of her, I’ll try to explain,…
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Prelude To A Monster
The shadows descended at dawn, stealing the sunlight, bursting inside me and snatching my heart with blood soaked hands. The night nestles into the sky, conquering the promised morning, and I am in debt to darkness, running from fate’s wrath. I see the innocence inching away from my boy, bundled into the entangled arms of…