"I've always been a night owl," he says, closing the book he held in his lap. It was one of those classic novels, but with no dust jacket, and no big bold words printed across the front, so I wasn't sure which novel the old man was perusing right now. Although I could easily look and find out, I chose to let it be. "Even when I was your age, I ( Read more... )

Standing in his towel, he pulled his hands down his face yet again. The mirror, still half fogged, the bottom half luckily, reflected back to him a face he no longer recognized as his own. Sure, their eyes were the same color, and the hair, too, but he didn’t see the man he used to be. Now, there was this new man, and the jury is still out on ( Read more... )

I got a very disturbing e-mail today...and it's...well...it's changed things ( Read more... )

She walks into the room, and my heart, it burns ( Read more... )

I have three dreams currently on repeat in my brain. Dream I) the same dream I've had since I was 12. I die saving someone. The deaths are various, always painful, and regretfully public (even in my dreams, I wish to die privately, without much to do, but unfortunately, it happens in the public, with the whole world knowing the reasons for my ( Read more... )

I had to quit the Target job today. I don't think I really had a choice, and the sad part is that I've had a few hundred options to choose from. I just didn't have the time to think them out, to weigh them, and I may have made the wrong one for unknown reasons ( Read more... )

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The snow was flying in soft flurries outside. It caked against the windows about two feet up, but beyond the windows, it was only ten inches deep on the ground. The hospital windows had a glazed over fog, warm on the inside, cold on the outside. One little boy, 3 years old, scribbled on the frost. A smiley face, then a tic-tac-toe that he beat ( Read more... )

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I started my new job at Target. Ugh. I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. Did I say I hate it? Okay, what I mean is...I hate it ( Read more... )