The Last Thread
The bell is my line. I grab it as it rings, a thread of sanity wrapped in bass. Each toll tells my body, “Wake! Wake! Live!”. The pain recedes from agony to unbearable and finally a dull throbbing.
When it is done, I can stand. Slowly my stiff hands and knees re-learn gravity. My mother is in the corner, seizing lightly. Continue reading
Back to Cold
Once, there was a woman who loved to dance. She had long flowing clothes that swept the forest ground as she spun and twisted, arms arched high as she cupped the sun and the air and the earth. She danced night and day, in the middle of a old forest filled with great twisted trees that stretched it’s limbs upwards towards the sun. In the dark, she danced Continue reading
The Truth and the Turtle
Once there were many large brown turtles swimming in a brown, salty sea. Though warm, the sea stung their eyes and dried their skin. The sea was surrounded by desert sand. The only visitors the turtles had were great brown birds that journeyed far and rested at the sea.
The birds told the turtles of the bounty and excitement Continue reading