Category Archives: Fiction
If it comes up
When you bow your head,when the mountain looms before you, lofty or otherwise, when you see that perhapsthe best way forward is notthrough the snow, but backthrough the deep, just call out to thosewho should have helped youthe whole way … Continue reading
Sometimes I Feel It
Sometimes I feel it — the immediacy of the thing I need to say, a burning from the inside out, and I cannot remove my hand from the match, not even as I watch it burn down, not even as … Continue reading
Excerpts
These are all excerpts from WsIP. Enjoy. ******************************************** Rez coughed, turned his head and spat something vile. He sat up, gasping, his eyes wide and blind and blinking, as his hands clapped over the broad, blank skin of his chest, … Continue reading
I remember you
I remember you and what it wasyou were selling.I remember the days, all 365 of them, starting out plain,ending in space,ending with bloodand surrealism and the faint tang of self-disappointment. I remember the gut churning,and the panic inducing,and all the … Continue reading
What if we don’t make it?
Tell me then, what you might have said a hundred thousand times before, when I looked over, and I knew your tongue was heavy with the weight of words I kept wishing would fall free. Tell me then, what you … Continue reading