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...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
You turn off the car engine and sit for a few moments. You let your body sink into the quiet, taste a rare second of calm. The kids woke you nearly five hours ago. It’s not even mid-morning. “Make the most of every minute”, they say. “Time will go...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
All eyes turn to the full moon and I think of the months I would live without you. At first, counting, one, two, the belly of the autumn leaf facing the sky, before it touches the cold ground. The shedding of the seasons as close to me as the dry skin on my thumb,...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized |
When I stepped outside on Wednesday morning, feeling the weight of the ongoing week on my shoulders, the last thing I expected was a proposal of marriage. I got one though. Albert had come and stepped right in front of me effectively blocking the path and demanding my...
by Dave | Jul 1, 2022 | Short Fiction, Uncategorized |
The great silence didn’t happen all at once, so there is no definitive way to pinpoint when it occurred. It did, however, begin in my youth. It began when a linguist was interned in the prison of a hostile foreign power. Using only will, she discovered a way to...
