What Kermit the Frog have Opinions About What Women Are Reading in 2021
Getting opinions, often voluntary, about the types of books they read has been an almost universal experience among the women I have spoken to. “I…
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The Marionette
“What an ugly, creepy marionette,” I said to Suzanne, the thrift shop employee. It had a white painted face with red lips and black eyes…
A Howl In The Night
A young girl finds herself in a strange and cursed land Photo by luizclas from Pexels The carriage rattled and careened through the rocky alpine trail.…
In The Court of The Oblivion Lord
Haley has been holding her arms up at a right angle for an hour now. The camp provided climbing shoes, which she swears were too…
If Only
Rachel I dragged my luggage through the station doors and found a seat, feeling more warmth from the empty bench than I usually do back…
Thorns
When I dream, I am many things, but I am never human. Last night, I was a baby squirrel, dying slowly on the thorn of…
I Do Not Know You But I Know You For What You Are To Me
On Friday evenings, she took her baby girl on the train from the apartment they lived in the suburbs into the city to the apartment…
Leap of Faith
I look down. It’s a long way down. Not the kind of drop most would survive. I’m sure I wouldn’t, not with my tiny, frail…
To Hope and Back
My hands shook, but part of me always knew it would turn out like this. She didn’t move. Laid completely still, as if frozen in…
A Howl of Pain
Every October the pain would come. Exactly at midnight on the first, like clockwork. An itch all over my body that I couldn’t make stop.…