Tag Archives: memory
Recognizable
The ferocity of the slap rocked her head back; she resettled her stance and lifted her chin, defiant, navy eyes staring him down. “That all you got?” she wondered, and the curve of her lips twisted into a challenging smirk. … Continue reading
To Taste Starlight
You hold me each time when we decide as we decide to go in the fashion we choose. I twine my fingers with yours and we tell one another stories of threadbare memory, trying to keep alive ages long past, … Continue reading
Before I forget
Before I forget, let me say that I occasionally want to reach through the nothing but time, distance, air, electrons that separate us, and grab hold of you by the throat. I want to pull you back to me, and … Continue reading
Paid For
It was three days later, while Xand was tending to and being tended by the gaunt, pale, exhausted Master Tynan, that a courier from Master Jack arrived. An armed courier. The man said to Tynan, “My Master insists on another … Continue reading
Not Quite ‘That Color’
Somewhere well far and absolutely beyond dog-ass-tired, as well as mud-covered, bruised, and bleeding, Joel leans back against the alley wall and looks up at the sky. It’s not quite gone ‘that color’, the one that means it’s nearly morning, … Continue reading