The cable cars were bumping throughout the hilly city creating traffic hold ups and noisy drivers leaning on their horns every chance they could. The people craved noise, and it created the city. It was a beautiful city standing off towards the ocean. From a ship, you almost fell in love with the tired city circling the bay and falling into it’s ( Read more... )

I find myself resigning to a usual place. It’s a fairly large brick building; a back wall is where we meet, with corners and angles at every turn. A cemetery sits just over the fence; I glance at cars driving to and from gravestones as the gravediggers’ smoke like breaths can be seen in the December air. The fence is surrounded by now barren ( Read more... )

It was a quarter past five, the numbers shown bright across her face in a blurred fashion. I opened the curtains slowly as not to wake her. The earliest rays of sunshine fell across her half naked body all sprawled out on the bed. Her hair, light in color was strewn about and plastered to the side of her head. She never looked so beautiful as ( Read more... )

He walked into the room, his books displaced around his coffee table stained from the coffee spilt the night before. He smiles at the image of coffee spilled on the coffee table and sits down on his burgundy chair glancing at his bookshelves and out the window watching the first snow hitting and falling off the trees. He pulls his pipe from his ( Read more... )

I awoke to the smell of dark coffee brewing and spilling into the pot. I rolled out of bed, stretching I looked to her side, she was nowhere to be found. She always loved to get up before me, just to watch me sleep. “It’s the breathing” she said, I never understood the fascination of watching me breathe, but she did. I walked around the corner ( Read more... )