Category Archives: anger
The Rabbit Hole
You start out on a journey without a compass or a clue. You don’t realize that nothing could have prepared you for this. You are hurled into a new timeless existence where day and night are just figments of your imagination. At first you are too bewildered to know what happened. You know you should (…) MORE »
The Book of Job
“Fine. No books tonight, Sören. I love you. Good night.” Sören scrunches his sandy eyebrows and puckers his lips. With his overgrown, homemade haircut he looks like a Beatle with some serious indigestion. “Not fair!” My persecuted rock star has spent the last year rehearsing his intonation, frustration, connotation, and implication on the frets of a single (…) MORE »
Hello, my name is Clara, and my Brother is an Alcoholic.
I am the sister of an addict. He is an alcoholic and a drug user, and he has burned nearly all the bridges in our family with his lies. He never could learn the easy way. If someone told him not to do something, he turned right around and did it, the same when he (…) MORE »
A PRAYER FOR HER LIFE – A Short Story
“Lord, please take care of her. She’s so frail…” I falter and don’t know what else to say. If God knows my deepest thoughts, why do I ever bother trying to pray? Then I think of my husband and his sister, Lee. The way she clung to me in the airport last night. “At least, (…) MORE »
Easy Schmeasy
I’m five months into my second round with active cancer. When I was first diagnosed in 2008, there was immense pressure, both internally and externally, to “make every moment count, as if saying count in italics, or with an italisized voice would make it stick. My inner voice, “HEATHER, make this moment count, dammit, even (…) MORE »
The Finish – A Short Story
You sit on the side of the high school pool cheering your daughter on. Water churns, sprays you, as legs kick harder. She’s a full arm’s length ahead of the others, including her teammates. “Faster, Kelly!” you scream, afraid she might lose her lead in these last forty-five meters. Mentally, you try to bridge your (…) MORE »
