In those final days before the end
she stopped picking apart his every move
saw their time together for what it was
this man that she had loved and known
But today it is time to choose
divorce or devotion, love or lose
They pack their gym bags and head out
Exercise side by side on matching bikes
30 minute limit and someone [...]
Because sometimes, you wake up grumpy from a nap and find something like this waiting on your mousepad. Husbands know how to bring a smile, every time.
In honor of Nanowrimo, (or perhaps to keep myself from cheating and using old material) I am publishing some short stories I wrote in college. Let me repeat: I wrote in college. Apologies in advance.
Brandy had been sitting in the Accord so long she could barely see past the steam collected on the windshield. Her [...]
Written on August 29, 1994:
In ten years I would like to be out of college and married.
[10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written]
I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials.
[10-year-later update: I was assistant [...]
I am a married woman (happily, for the record.) One of my best friends happens to be a guy. Ronnie and I have spent a lot of time together, needless to say, but every time we go out to bars people always find it shocking that not only are we not together, but we both [...]
But when our eyes touched
joined in our new world
I could do nothing but stare
and wonder what it would take
to know you
to hold you
and then we said hello
Cedar Mountain was ours but it couldn’t keep us
You belonged to the shore
but my heart was yours
You were in my dreams again last night
A millennium alone
enough to carry me [...]