Stories tagged “emotional”
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A Rose with one thorn
I was sitting with my back to Peter Pan avoiding Bambi’s wide eyed stare. The room was called the family room. The sign on the door stared back at me challenging me to disagree. I surrendered in hope. I prayed for someone inexperienced who had no...
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Emotional Amazonian
She was amazonian in build. We spent hours in front of Bonanza, she lacing yarn through plastic cards and I counting my cross stitches, surrounded by shelved unicorns. Today when I arrived she was fresh from a bath, and demanded we go shopping. “...
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Monster. Part One: The Beginning.
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Monster. Part Two: Sadness and Rage.
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Monster. Part Three: Desperation.
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Monster. Part Four: New beginning, new troubles.
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Monster. Epilogue.

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Monster. About the Author/Summary.
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Monster. About the Epilogue.
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Time Flows Like a River...

The coffee shop was half full. College kids sat in singles and clumps, mostly studying but some were having nice, quiet conversations. It was a comfort that most were Asian and fulfilled stereotypes I held of them. Looking at Nathan over the edge of my...
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In Between Minds: Emotional Debris
I stumbled around for hours, trying to get away from the train and Kseinya. Need dictated my actions and I needed to be somewhere else. There was too much to process. Blood on my hands. Val gone. The other nestled in the back of my head. It wasn’...
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the weights and shackles of dreams
I had that dream again. That dream where I’m protecting the girl, but I’m taller, stronger. He comforts the girl, not me, but I’m the one doing the fighting. I’m the one that loves her and protects her. But she doesn’t see...
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Painful Numbness
I look out the window, feeling numb, cold, and tired. My eyes are softened and blurred by tears. I sit in the rocking chair; looking into the emptiness of the world beyond this room. I feel dead inside. But I can’t be dead. My heart is beating, my br...