It’s a gloomy Sunday afternoon. I stand looking out the window – feeling a little pensive. Sad, really.
“I’m tired of being me,” I say. “I’d like to be someone else for a while.”
My husband says, “Who do you want to be?”
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The Incident by Amanda Frieze
My sister Mary hasn’t been the same since the incident. That’s what we call it, ever since she told us something happened to her when we were kids. She’s always refused to explain what happened, exactly, other than to say a visitor knocked on the door and she answered.
The Other Man: A Love Story with a Happy Ending by Linda C. Wisniewski
It’s been forty-five years since I graduated from high school, forty-five years since my crush signed my yearbook with “love.” He sat behind me in almost every class. In those days, our seats were assigned according to our last names and mine came just before his in the alphabet.
The Door Store by Cole DeNardo
My mother thought something was wrong with me.
I liked to make stuff up-worlds, stories, people… so she made me go to Dr. Johnson’s. She wanted to “whack the weird” out of me before I got too old.
Truth was, Mom just didn’t see what I saw.
Directions to a Secret Treasure by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Drive through the skinny downtown,
up the hill on a twisty road.
Inhale the resin-scented air
touched with the tang of the sea.
Kyoto by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Heady with travelers’ bravado
the couple stood in ancient Kyoto
on a street lined with old wooden buildings.
The woman held a tourist map in her hands,
the man wanted to give her the world.
What would life be without…? by Penny Luker
What would it be like
if you had no phone
to store your contacts
or hold music, you own?
I Remember by Dee Ann Waite
I remember as a little girl
the laughter that we shared
I remember as a little girl
how very much you cared
Whisker breath by Penny Luker
Fox-red rabbit with snowdrop paws
peeping through the sodden grass.
Never-ending munching.
Unaware that black cat ears
are just a whisker away.
The Smell of Bread by Karoline Barrett
I hate parallel parking! Ruth, my great-grandmother, sits beside me, humming along to the Sinatra CD I’m playing for her. At last! Ruth, is patient as I maneuver; back and forth until I fit just right. I help her out of my blue Prius. She hands me quarters for the meter. I demur, she insists; [...]
Mixed Emotions by Kelsey Boeser
Love like you have never been hurt is what I hear,
I do not trust these words, for they are not true.
The feeling of heartbreak is my biggest fear
Maybe I would have never loved, if I only knew
To me, love is not at all what it seems.
Escape Artist by Jeaunice T. Burnette
Zoey was itching for adventure.
Travel guides made her drool.
She had an appetite for exploration.
Trekking across the world is cool.
Payback’s a Bitch by Miranda Nixon
The day was Saturday and I was almost finished with my shift at Steak-N-Shake. I started my usual end-of-shift routine and wrapped the cleaned silverware in napkins for the next round of servers who would start their shift soon. I was well over half way done when my co-worker and roommate Aimee came over to give me a hand.
Destination Dreams by Amy S. Pacini
Destination dreams
Of nocturnal nooks
Picturesque places
And secret spaces
Who? by Penny Luker
Sometimes when I lie in bed,
I wonder -
Who lived here two hundred years ago?
Were the rooms filled with choking smoke
or were they warmed by dancing flames?
Meehonkey by Bernie Brown
Crowded into the miniature Ocracoke Coffee shop, Amanda stood in line between auto repairmen and young mothers with strollers. While she waited, she listened to the espresso machine whoosh foam into her latte and thought about why she had decided to take this trip all by herself. She didn’t know. Why had she?
Childhood Explorer by Teresa Peipins
White petals
of trillium
play with
forest light and shade.
Spring Arrives Late by Leah Browning
Suddenly, the rosebushes are all in bloom,
covered in enormous, extravagant roses,
and it is as if I have never seen light before,
the way it illuminates each leaf and petal.
They look almost unnatural, otherworldly
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