Some would say that I was lucky. I didn’t have to watch them die. It’s a small comfort to be sure, as it’s easy to offer a kind word delivered in just above a whisper when it’s not your family. “I’m so sorry.”“They are in a better place”“If there is anything… Continue reading →
This experience may be a fable, conjured up by the imagination of my youth. Nevertheless the experience and story still gives me chills when told. The event may have occurred in a dream; it is not life changing and probably has no moral or lesson; it is… Continue reading →
As he walked along the balcony that overlooked the street, Grant Joche tested the railing by gripping it and pulling on it. It seemed secure. "This is a beautiful place" he commented. The woman walking behind him, stepped to his right, and leaned on the… Continue reading →
Taggart-Zimmer Press Release for Somina (zolpidex celtrate), June 12, 2007 ____________________ “Why does the human body need sleep?” This is one of the most perplexing unanswered questions facing modern medicine. Perhaps a better question, however, is this… Continue reading →
Gabe's first muddled thought was that a pair of cats must be fighting outside his window again. There had been a stray lurking in the hedgerow earlier that year, before the seasons had changed, and it had occasionally split the night with the sort of lunatic… Continue reading →
It was cold that night when Jamie Lynn walked home at one AM. Her pretty little mouth quivered, hiding chattering teeth behind those ruby red lips. Every time she took a breath, it looked like she was smoking; not a cigarette, but one of those elegant,… Continue reading →
They shot me when I was sixty four and I died two days later at 65. The bullet stuck somewhere near my spine and might not or have killed me in time. But patience aint one of they’ virtues. It was the nurse that did it. I didn’t see it happen ‘cause I was… Continue reading →
When I was around 11 years old, my older brother was living in the basement. He joined the military and left, so in turn, I moved all my stuff into the basement and took his room. The first night I slept down there I was fine. The 2nd however, not so fine. I… Continue reading →
Princess was a good kitty. But, she was old, very old – 19 to be exact. She had a good life living with her companions. But, her kidneys were failing and she felt the end of her life draw near. All day she waited for her companions to come home – barely… Continue reading →
In the early 1980’s, my sister received a gift of a doll from our native Ukraine from an aunt when she came to visit. She was 10 and of course occupied the bigger of the 2 kid’s rooms in our small Georgian style house in Chicago. I was 8 and pretty annoying… Continue reading →
I believe that when you die, you have three options… 1) Roll the dice, go to the afterlife. Most likely, you're getting into Heaven. If you've killed someone without regret, be sure that a trip to Hell is in the cards.2) Roll again with reincarnation.… Continue reading →
It happened back when I was in elementary school. I was around eight years old. My family lived in the same house my mother had lived in her entire life. My grandfather had sold the house to my parents when they had gotten married. We lived on 10 acres of… Continue reading →