He wondered if people looked like that from God’s perspective,

as all have done at one time or another, and if so, were they

equally indistinguishable and as seemingly…

There is no misery akin to being dogged by a horsefly while working a plow,…

The federal prison system is now considering freeing former Enron executive Jeff Skilling early (after having served only 7 years of his original 27 year sentence), since the Supreme Court has…

Horses know things.

She lay across the entrance of Dutfield's Yard with rain coming like retribution, as if it aimed to scour away something grievous and ugly, and even in that…

I was on a first date in my early twenties and I wanted to take this guy to a Mexican restaurant where they play live…

Kelli: Twelfth Grade

Katrina keeps trying to hang out with us and she just doesn’t seem to understand that she doesn’t fit in (her hair just has way too much texture,…

We were sitting in a Denny’s booth eating breakfast when she walked in with her young son.…

Kelli, Eighth Grade:

We were in art class, and when Amanda got up to rinse out her paintbrush, I got the other kids at the table to promise they would…

She took your order in the cafe yesterday and you thought to yourself how maybe you had never seen a human being try so hard to smile and still not quite get it done.

There is a…

I sometimes hate myself. My face is lonely and i no-one is talking to me. Everyone is of course Laughing, and talking, I feel like crying. Why cant I be like other people? Or why cant that other…

Dear Aimee,

I just wanted to say…

Do you…

She was in the pew, directly in front of me, and I could smell her.  Her hair was short and oily, and clung in strands to the back of her head.  The folds of her coat strained over the bulges…

1.) Take a walk, observe the flowers, those that thrive, those that are dying, wilting, falling to the ground without a sound, a death unnoticed, uncelebrated, except by you, dear…

1.  It sucks you up into its singing whirlwind and tosses you around like an ecstatic ragdoll.  It squeezes and wrings your over-full heart.  It speaks to you through the life crashing in your…

It was night time on the car lot, and maybe he mistook me for an older woman, given the harsh skin tones caused by sodium vapor lights.…

He was as tall as me when he stood up straight, which he rarely did, only when he was told.

He had long blonde hair that fell in golden waves all the way down his back and he would often…

I want to be that daring gardener who ploughs up her front yard -- to the horror of the Neighborhood Association -- and plants Birds of Paradise, waist…

My game is Canasta, a tarted-up Rummy game with an incredible scoring procedure that was developed in Venezuela and became popular in the States in the 1950’s and 60’s, and people who are still…