by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
“Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my garden?” I want to say. My English reserve answers instead and I reply to her question about the delightful weather. She’s softly spoken and I judge about my age, early forties. Homely looking. Although...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
I shuffled into the dungeon. I couldn’t go any faster because of the shackles. Try as I might, I couldn’t locate anything close enough to balance the restraints. They had prepared everything. On the table in front of me was a peach. I picked it up,...
by Dave | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I fell in love with misery, The darkness at my door. It punched me til I gasped for breath, And then I asked for more. I’d watch it through the window, Waiting for the day, That misery would swallow me, And take it all away. I took a chance on hope. It’d come...
by Dave | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I am held with my face close to creased papery skin that smells of unknown things. I’ve never made old age and I wonder if this time I will know what it’s like to have lines and aches and pains. Rheumy eyes peer and a voice says, “I do declare, he’s been here before!”...
by Dave | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
It was prophetic, calling their bald afterthought Ruby simply because they liked the name. She began sprouting wavy vermilion hair, and her mousy-haired mother would turn to her similar-hued husband and exclaim: ‘She’s not like us, is she?’ She...
