Where are the fates to cut my string? Where is death with his scythe uphold? Where is my soul innocent born? And where is my heart long since turned to stone? Not in the shadows more alive than I. Not in the voices that whisper terror in my ear. Nor are they hiding where lost…… Continue reading Hidden
via Daily Prompt: Wrinkle Today was like every other day that had come before it. It didn’t matter if the sun was shining or if anyone else was home, what mattered was the only constant; me. It was if there was a giant boulder weighing on my chest when I opened my eyes. And what…… Continue reading Wrinkled
I don’t fit in. Not in my family, not with my friends. Not at work, not at home. Only when I am alone. I used to hate this status. I used to hate myself I used to lay awake at night perpetually depressed. I tried to change, to fit in somehow. but I always…… Continue reading Misfit
It happened to me too. The unwanted touch the feeling of shame. The years of misplaced guilt. It happened to me too. And while I am not alone that realization breaks my heart. How can I find solace, in the fact that others share my pain? Loved ones hurt for years, some hidden…… Continue reading Me Too
We are broken, I see that now Through cracked window panes and dirty memories. No glue is strong enough to keep us together No heat will refine us as new. The damage is done. We are permanently tarnished. I want to be angry I want to rage against the injustice of it all. But…… Continue reading Broken
The first time Evineen met Death, she was 6 years old. She expected a scary demon with fire in his but what she got instead was handsom man with hair black as ink and eyes dark as a starless night. Her childhood dog opened his eyes no more and death came to take him home.…… Continue reading The Bride of Death
People talk as if wondering what might have been is a bad thing. The worst thing really. But I think it is the best thing. Because if you know you might find out the person who has captured your affections is a cheater with a family of their own or that they will leave you…… Continue reading What Might Have Been.
The energy in the room pulsates in an electric current that matches the beating of my heart. It overwhelms my senses and I am no longer able to compose a coherent thought. Beating so fast I can almost hear it. How can one person do this to another? How can you do this to me…… Continue reading Nervous
via Daily Prompt: Tempted There were so many ways I imagined it would go when I saw you again. So many different scenarios that played on repeat in my head. But none of them prepared me for the real thing. None of them perfectly captured the blue of your eyes or the crooked tilt of…… Continue reading I’m Stronger Now
Have you ever had the sensation of being trapped in your own body? As if your essence were a bird, and life the bird cage, trapping you in an eternal period of solitude and despair. You might wonder what I have to be so down about, and I wonder the same. So many have had…… Continue reading Random Musing after a Trying Week
Once Upon a Mermaid Tale: Reading, Writing and other Musings 