I’d gotten used to the barren white walls after only a couple weeks. They were worth it for her. Anything was worth it for her. If I had to wear the same clothes day in and day out and stare at nothing but sterile, desolate white walls to see her…
I had forgotten I’d written these! They were for the Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference competition in 2018 (before I took over, because people got upset that I won every year). But I wrote them out on paper, and hand counted all the words – so I had no soft copies…
All the other trees along the street had large, broad green leaves that turned golden yellow every fall and fell in a beautiful carpet to the sidewalk. They were all lightly chestnut colored trunks, with swirlings of darker browns up and down the branches and bark. They grew tall, but…
Deadlines are a beast, but they never used to worry me… Not like they do now… I’d been writing and hitting deadlines since grade school, so I never used to worry about them. Generally, I was that overachiever that finished early so that I could have at least one full…
COVID-19 Corona Virus Disease 2019 The disease hit, and the world went to pieces. Quarantines and lock downs, enforced to different levels of severity. Families divided and kept apart for a long list of reasons. Governments flailed, people rallied or revolted, and trust was broken between everyone. The media took…
She used to joke about her “teacher’s immune system”. After the first couple years of teaching, she just didn’t get sick anymore. She didn’t take anything, save some glasses of orange juice, but she really did have impressive natural defenses. When everyone else was out with the flu or some…
