Our house by the sea
When I was a child, my mother wanted to live out in the country. So, my father saved to buy the land and sold his shop to build a farm. The trade of the bustling…
When I was a child, my mother wanted to live out in the country. So, my father saved to buy the land and sold his shop to build a farm. The trade of the bustling…
The river sighed beneath her touch, light rippling outward until it gathered at the feet of the man in black. Her heart stuttered, as it always did when he came. The bond between them defied…
*This story contains smoking* “Aunt Dolores, who’s that?” Kristen Joei muses, observing a guy wash a car. He doesn’t have a recognizable face, yet his aura is something she’s seen before… something similar to…
The sea was restless beneath a dark and menacing sky. I watched angry waves barrel into the cove, crashing against the rocks. Foam and water sprayed in every direction, soaking everything close. The sound of…
The night I wash ashore, the stars look like barnacles—small and stubborn, clinging to a dark hull I can’t name. Waves unmake themselves around my ribs. The tide tries to pull me back, then changes…