Prose & Cons

I imagine this is what drowning feels like. Or suffocating. My lungs are still breathing. In and out, in and out.  But each breath I…

Don’t you want him to be happy? Yeah, of course. But not at the expense of my happiness.  Not when my unhappiness causes them happiness. …

Even as she dies the flowers celebrate; each Trillium a different mourning call. An array of tiny ballerinas bent delicately towards the flaming sun. While…

Beneath black skies and adjacent to a stretch of potholed highway, Rich let himself into the law offices of Angelou and Martinez through a window…

Daphne picked at a splinter in her left index finger. The skin was burning red, but she didn’t know where her tweezers had gone. It…

One hand covers the eye—  Its wrinkled knuckles painted stark white  Visible ancient eye rimmed by soot From a forgotten fire Scar, leaking from the…

I can’t sleep  Too many things on my mind All the things I want to say All the things I wanted to say All the…

06/05/2021-06/18/2021  In the thick of the second summer,  The smell of rain hangs high in the air, close to the clouds next to my open…

To: All the women who deny themselves, or don’t even know what they want for themselves, who have been too caught up in being something…

“Ms. Rose is so cool! I hope I can be as successful as her one day…” Lucy chuckled to herself, hearing her young coworker praise…