The body submits "I can’t resist your power" and in an instant twelve years of sobriety has come to a tragic end...

China’s ships lurk around the corner. Watching from the bay; stealthy foreigner. TALISMAN SABRE. TALISMAN SABRE. The US and Australia...

“Listen, ladies, we can’t permit someone like Janice to move on our private street. She is trash. That is apparent. What? She thinks that...

Why do you sit there mad at the world? Why do you blame others but never yourself? Do you feel the world owes you something? Do you not...

There just isn’t and  has never been a path so straight where there aren’t curves that don’t bend like taking trails made of hills. The...

I could have just left him there. After all, it was a dead body, and I had my kiddos to think about. I had seen dead bodies before at...

Why must raging rivers Spring suddenly into view? Unannounced, They swallow All our hopes and expectations That formed When the way was...

It began the usual way, in the back of the salon, yet this was no typical salon. The dump was nestled between a fish stand and bakery in...

I woke in the sunshine and stretched sleepily. That was when I saw the hole under the tree where a scraggy, stripy cat had spat and...

The hypocrisy drips off your pious face. Your mask twisted in a smile. It's not genuine; you do it all for show. Yet, behind my back,...

There was hope we clung to often. A pillar of strength! To hold us up. At nightfall, when the darkness entered, Moving, consuming, we...

As they shut business doors, As the races are in wars, As vaccine debates turn heated, Our generation feels defeated. Some feel...

Dry here in this city Drowning in still waters Where the dark gray looms Across the fluorescent Streetlights that are flickering. There...

There's company knocking at the door, And the house, it looks a mess! There are floors to mop and shelves to dust, So my friends, I can...

When fruit ripens on the tree, As honey is produced by the bee, And the ground gives its yield, A splendid sight in the field. The...

I made a promise as a child, When life was easy and mild. I didn't know the impact, Of such a life-long contract. Should I be held to the...

It was hard to listen to the elders, especially after watching the Dream Maker fulfill everyone's dreams. Wasn't my dreams worthy? "Atsa,...

It was, it feels, thousands of years ago, In a home you built with love, I grew, Where my childhood played in those walls, Where I was...