By the time Mae Watkins came in to check on her, Cheryl was standing at the sink dabbing her forehead with a moistened paper towel. “I figured you might need this,” Mae said, holding up Cheryl’s purse. “It came off the plane a minute ago.” Cheryl had to stop herself from diving at the proffered […]
Anniversary by Justin Reamer Silent screams in an empty vacuum, Plexiglass blocking oxygen, Tears fall from vulnerable eyes, Asphyxiating in the water below. Repeatedly the affliction recurs, The perpetual plight of the patient. Lungs know violent respiration, Hypertension in capillaries and veins; Anxious mind, profuse perspiration, Arrhythmia to cardiac arrest. Indigestion in the intestines, […]
The forty-minute flight from Washington DC had been bad enough, their eighteen-seat prop jet bucking and yawing on every stray gust, but when Cheryl stepped out onto the tarmac at the tiny Lathrop airfield and felt that first rude slap of Southern humidity, her stomach lurched again into her throat. Cheryl Crawford had been raised […]
Remains of My Wasted Youth by Amanda Galvez There is sadness in your eyes And I can see it. I can see into the depths of your soul, Into your mind, and straight to your core. It lingers and dances down your spine, Sending tiny little shivers of sorrow down Each individual vertebrae. The […]