Stephanie Daich
VALENTINE POETRY
HE COMPLETES ME It was here I first held his hand. The picnic spread across the grass, Amidst the poppies and wildflowers. The breeze...
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Stephanie Daich
Feb 10, 20231 min read
HOW LONG -Poetry by guest author W Roger Carlisle
How long does it take to make a wall? A wall of bricks, stones, plaster, insults, grudges, hurt and disrespect. A second of distraction...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 9, 20236 min read
Eight YEARS WITHOUT A HUG -Fiction
I didn’t do it. I know all convicts cry the exact words, but I speak truth. I am innocent, yet they stole my life and yanked it away....
Stephanie Daich
Feb 9, 20231 min read
RISE, WOMAN, RISE
Within you, the grace of the universe gathers, A collection of positive energy flows. -You, a magnificent female. Your goodness radiates...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 7, 20235 min read
PRIDE IN MY FAMILY -Fiction
The moment you believe them, you don't appreciate what you have. I hadn't realized I had a strange family until kindergarten. After that,...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 7, 20231 min read
POTLUCK -Poetry
Weird food brought to the church potluck. Tables piled high with homemade muck. Last spring, twenty got sick, From something green and...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 6, 20231 min read
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION- Flash fiction-unconventional form
-A silly flash fiction I did many years ago. I cannot edit it, but I thought sharing it in its raw form would be fun....
Stephanie Daich
Feb 6, 20231 min read
IN THE VINEYARD -Poetry by guest author by Eduard Schmidt-Zorner
I lie under the vine and look into the blue sky through the green-yellow leaves. Cockaigne... grapes grow into my mouth, drowsy,...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 5, 202325 min read
THE MORTICIAN's WIDOW -Speculative Fiction
How could my parents leave us alone with Mrs. Hadley, the mortician's widow? Didn't they love us anymore? Nothing stirred fear more than...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 4, 20232 min read
THE POET -Poetry by guest author W Roger Carlisle
(Note: This poem was written before the Covid-19 pandemic, thus any reference to masks refers to metaphorical masks, not physical masks)...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 3, 20238 min read
BEST FRIEND BETRAYAL -Fiction
If you couldn't trust your best friend, then who could you trust? "We've been friends since third grade." Ted bragged whenever he...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 2, 20231 min read
I WON'T LET ANYONE ELSE IN -Poetry
Disappointment and heartache Yet one more chance for me. Relationships that end and break Drop me to my knee. Hope lined with...
Stephanie Daich
Feb 1, 20231 min read
THE SPEED TRAP OF HOPE -by guest author- Rp Verlaine
There are maps of our choosing with a finite indifference to logic traversed too often despite knowing ruin awaits… This is where the...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 31, 202323 min read
LUNATIC BALL -Historical Fiction
They throw the "untouchables" into the asylum. "It's an act of charity," the authorities gaslighted us. Like the rest of the New Yorkers...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 30, 20231 min read
VESSELS OF LOVE -Poetry
Our bodies were designed as vessels of love, To succor and comfort the feeble, To give, even as we go without....
Stephanie Daich
Jan 29, 202314 min read
WARRIOR MASK -Speculative fiction
It was the day that changed it all. My sweaty hands gripped the door as I entered the dojo. I couldn't shake my trepidation. What is...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 29, 20231 min read
FAITH -Poetry by guest author Steve Anc
It is faith to price a flying life, When lacks hang in the air. It is faith to stare at the sun, When doom smiles from the start. It is...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 27, 202320 min read
CROSSING THE BOARDER -Fiction
“We found the teen girl’s body floating down the river,” the feminine voice announced over the morning news. “We believe she was part of...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 27, 20231 min read
ONLY WINTER AND NOTHING MORE -Poetry
While in my room, I rested, frozen in bed, my mind infested, I wanted to get up and move. Is that too much to ask for? As I imagined,...
Stephanie Daich
Jan 26, 20231 min read
GREATER THAN GOLD -Poetry
A withered hand, a soggy bum, And wiry hairs out the nose. A nasal whistle, a hearing-aid hum, And blackened diabetic toes. Crevices...
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