The past few years have been an absolute whirlwind for me. For years, I was a struggling writer, dreaming of becoming the next great American author, but I simply couldn't break into the literary industry. I survived for a time on freelance jobs ranging from article writing and blogging to copywriting and editing. They say every...
...not dead but dying."...
It’s always two in the morning when I would usually wake up because of my blanket shifting beside me. I would open my lamp to check but before I could, her little arms would start to hug me....
It was a beautiful night for a walk in the small town of Albion. A married couple walked down Main Street, hand in hand. They were so focused on each other they barely noticed the group of strangers standing at the end of the sidewalk. He smelled them before she saw them. A gasp escaped the wife as they stopped abruptly in front...
BUTTERLY HOUSE!...
Beep!...
One day there was no street, and the next day there was. Freshly paved, with a sign and a name. A new street isn’t amazing, of course, it’s just something that happens. But when it seems to happen over night? Well, that’s odd, but not the kind of thing people really wonder about. The typical response is, “Huh, when did...
What does it take to kill?...
"Here, have a turn on mine...." sleds flew down the hill, and were dragged back up, in an endlessly moving parade. Cassie had just moved to Pennsylvania from Florida, and was loving winter-time more every day. Sledding, snowball fights, sliding on the frozen pond.......
I tried to contain my excitement and stare out the window. I was waiting for my daughter. Every year she had made a card for me on valentine’s day ....
Leslie Franklin was a stupid, selfish, inconsiderate woman. She was a terrible wife and a worse mother. She had no job, no maternal instinct, and no sense of responsibility. Instead of being a parent, she leaned on her mother, father, and husband to take care of her three year old son Joey....
"The only way to conquer your fears, Brad, is to face them", Daddy said. He was gathering some things together in a box as he spoke: a couple of clown dolls, a ventriloquist dummy, a stuffed monkey with a horrid, leering grin, three old Halloween monster masks....all things that gave Bradley the shivers....
My wife has always liked Pixy Stix. It was fine at first. She’d have one every once in a while. Then she’d need one after every meal. I thought she was going through a phase....
I won’t lie. I certainly didn’t expect it. She was actually the one who came over to me. I was conditioned to being ‘invisible’ to the opposite sex. Certainly to ladies who look like her. Since she addressed me, I assumed it was regarding a simple question. It’s usually about the whereabouts of the restroom, or if it...
Jack was only eight the first time I met him. I ran into him by what some would call chance… I call it fate. When I first saw Jack I was walking through the park. As I walk past the entrance there was a boy, kneeled down over a dead rabbit. It appears someone must’ve run this little creature over when entering the park. I...
Watching my 13 year old daughter play softball over the years has helped me to conclude that there’s certain noticeable differences that are easily distinguishable between the moms and dads, which are basically that the moms will socialize with each other and the dads will typically say “hey how’s it going” then disperse...
That's what they told me....
My sister Anna and I were thick as thieves, though she was twelve years older. She was a rebel, in and out of trouble. I wore her hand-me-downs and aspired to be her, someday....
Are you reading this on your phone?...
The world of TikTok and Snapchat and whatever other emerging social media platforms, that my 11 year old daughter watches has always been something, I found as being childish and didn’t interest me much....
Times were tough. It was no secret I was miserable. A cloud of gloom followed me everywhere, including my job. A relationship breakup like mine would put anyone to the test and frankly, I was failing it. Still, I had bills to pay and it wasn’t going to help if I gave up and stopped getting out of bed. Each day I’d drag...
Well, it took millenia after my fall from that so-called Heaven to come up with a truly brilliant plan to instill mankind with greed, materialism, and a general turning away from Him. To inflict unfulfilled desire, envy, and just an overall wickedness....
"Did you swallow it?" he asks, looking down at her....
Today, I received an unusual police file on my desk from Bucks County Pennsylvania from a guy named Duane, who removes roadkill....
"Come on, just one? One surely won't hurt you..." He's a good-looking guy, with arresting Celtic knotwork tattooed on his forearms, that makes her wonder, hazily, if the knotwork is all over him. He has a slightly sinister air about him, which adds to the intrigue....