This was the moment that started it all. Here I was sitting on a stool in my kitchen. I was modestly dressed—tennis shoes, black leggings, little pink tank top cropped up high, no bra. This freckle-faced young man named Eric stood between my legs with his...
Today, I decided I’m done.Twisting my hips awayFrom your once loving tongue in anguish.My words, terse over breakfastGentle nudges and sighs, won’t last.I ask it straight. Why? You’ve known meForever. My me-ness?My mind and persona, direct as a pact.Tell...
Worry —What help have you ever been to me?Why then are you so ever present in my thoughts?So many journeys begin with you,Always destined to end with your friends here below.Not one thing do you add or enhanceNever improving the quality of your mind,And t...
Don’t call it a breakup;call it a truce that isn’t holding.Those aren’t words of regret I hear, they’re just more lies I’m done decoding.That isn’t an exit, it’s just a racing sprint for the far horizonand that’s not a farewell letterwhen it’s just recycl...
What gives you the right when I say no to youcan't pry in my headto ascertain my view Maybe it's your eyesor that you are too talldon't call me babyyou don’t know me at all No means no, damn itI have said it enoughthere’s no you and meyou don’t have the r...
I am so overGetting pushed aroundKicked while I'm downCrying without making a soundI can't understandWhy I feel so badEvery time you get madOur life is fucking sadIt's gotta stop soonI can't handle any moreMy heart is bruised and soreThere must be an end...
The rest of the day seemed to pass so slowly. Philip was attentive as he ever was, making coffee and tea, and ensuring I stayed off my feet as much as possible, generally behaving as he always did but it wasn't the same and we both knew it. He had lost th...
“Sam, wait! Come back... Please!” I shouted as she ran. I tried to get to my feet but my cast made it difficult. “Penny, stop her!” Penny ran after her but it was too late, Sam was gone. When she returned I begged her to follow her, to find and tell her h...
November 1390, Herefordshire Isabel la Badeau sat in the window embrasure of the de Grey estate in Herefordshire. She was watching the winter wind pelting the windows angrily. It was the sort of rain that came in on a diagonal and stung when it hit you. I...
“Philip, I…” “What?” He looked at me as if he was expecting rejection. “Nothing, Sweetheart. I am just not sure how we will do this.” “Don’t worry,” he smiled, “I won’t hurt you.” He leaned toward me then and kissed me. If I had doubts, they were all gone...
When I arrived at the breakfast room, I paused, all the tables appeared to be taken. I saw one small table in the far corner which was available, so I headed immediately towards it and placed my key in the place setting. Almost immediately a young waitres...
I wasn’t supposed to be there night. I was supposed to be at home, in my bedroom studying for a test I had the next week. So, how did I get there? Jordie. Jordie is my best friend in the whole world, and she is the one that dragged me out to the new club...
The last Laura knew about her Friday night out was the clock that read 10:18pm. The sheet around her sated body became a cocoon that carried her away to beyond the realms of reality. A place where thoughts refused to linger, where the body was oblivious t...
