[With Appetite] Lada pulled out her notebook. A small, black notebook slightly smaller than a traditional tarot card, but just as powerful. It’s texture skin holding inside its smooth, creamy pages. In was the important thoughts that passed through Lada’s mind, her accumulative knowledge of tarot, as well as every thing she, or her mother,…
Month: January 2023
Programming Revenge
Bernard sat at his computer. The thick clack of his mechanical keyboard filling the small studio apartment. The yellowed tips of his fingers hovered above the off-white keys. He took a deep breath as he slid his thick rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose. The soft notes of meadow mountains toying with his…
A Token of Affliction
The purple puffy pouch rested against the stapler. Some of the air already deflated causing it to slump more than stand. Not that she had filled it with air or anything really to make it puffy, it had just kind of closed that way. Inside was a small token of affection, one that Margret was…
Like a Lovesick Puppy
They say time can heal all wounds, but what else can time do? Can it change how we feel about people? What we remember about them? How we look at them or remember the way they treated us? Maybe even the way we treated them? Below are five chapters of a larger story – read…
Bawl & Chain
Chained He never left the house. Ever. At least not without her. When they had gone to the movies or to a car show, they went together. Grocery shopping, doctors appointments, all together. The only time he left, and left alone, was when he went to work. But with the pandemic his trips to the…