Melissa Powers
April 15, 2024
I’m no stranger to embracing the loneliness, while others enfold the light. I have no desire in seeking something that will only bring more pain.…
August 8, 2022
Meredith stares at the ceiling wondering how she got here. It seemed like only yesterday she was finishing college and on her way in the…
March 17, 2022
A life without a failsafe is one fraught with endless wrong turns and dead ends. If you take an erroneous path, there’s no way to…
March 2, 2022
I see you in the shadows, in the echoes of the past. Your words written on a crumpled piece of stationary paper that maim my…
February 28, 2022
Mary runs to the old chipped white bench in front of Pvt. Greene’s grave and plops down. She feels the tears streaming down her cheeks…
February 24, 2022
There is a beauty to being the sole bright light in a vast sea of darkness and a curse as well. Melanie Raynore should know…
February 13, 2022
Mary feels his gaze heavy on her, as her eyes remain firmly to the ground. She isn’t certain how to move forward with this conversation,…
February 4, 2022
Mary weaves her way through the gravestones in the cemetery, the moonlight illuminating her way. She hates that the only sound that can be heard…
February 1, 2022
Mary has been trapped in this dark moonlit cemetery for an undetermined amount of time. She had been free of this place once, living among…
January 29, 2022
One day your heart is thump…thump…thumping and the next, the musical rhythm is gone. The warmth in your veins has now turned to ice. Life…