The ball drops The chimes sound Fireworks exploding A New Year comes around Standing together Dark hair framed in flame I love you more deeply I need to exclaim As I look into your eyes Dark whirlpools churning Filling my soul Only for you, I'm yearning T...
Remember when we were younger, and we’d drive up north for Independence Day? We’d rent that little cabin on the lake and spend the days being too hot and swatting flies, and evenings cuddling by the campfire. We’d spend the nights in bed exploring each ot...
July 1, 2020 Why do you spend the most time thinking about those who don't think about you? They have moved on without a thought for you. And what are you doing? Still stuck in the past, not moving forward, missing the joys right in front of your face tod...
“If you want to hang out sometime this summer, give me a call." I had graduated high school two weeks ago. At the end of the very last graduation party, I was walking back to my car. Laura had come running up after me, handing me a slip of paper with her...
I was at her home. Friends were playing Sing the Lyrics. We were both 16. I wrote on a piece of paper, “Can I kiss you?” Jessica nodded yes. We left to our hangout spot in the poppy field. the sun was setting as I kissed her for the first time and saw the...
The fireworks are hotter inside the condo! I had watched her for several days at the beach resort we both were guests at in Ft. Walton Beach. Her name was Kate, a retired school teacher out for a week of sun and fun with her son and daughter’s small famil...
There's a bluebird in my heart thatWants to get out, But I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingTo let anybody seeYou- Charles Bukowski - When loneliness became a part of meIn such a way that others could not see.My heart forgot to fe...
As it turned out, Clarisse had been a foster child herself, but I didn’t discover that until her former foster sister invited us out to their lakefront home for the fireworks on the lake. I had never met Clarisse’s sister and brother in-law before, but th...
"There's a train leaving to Sprawlish Rabbiton in five minutes. If I get on it, and make it back for the Nine O'Clock to Shedclip, how long will I have in Sprawlish Rabbiton, please?"The ticket inspector winked at me."Long enough for a cheeky pint.""That'...
As his lips press softly against mine the cares of this world fade away into darkness.He and I are all that exist.Lips pressing harder my need becoming palpable the blood in my veins seems to become liquid fire.My heartbeat pounds through my eager body.St...
It’s almost midnight and darkness has finally settled in. We’ve hung lanterns from the low-lying tree branches, and there’s a floodlight at the rear of the house blanketing the backyard in a yellow glow. The warmth of the day lingers even without the sun....
College life wasn’t as fun as Katie had imagined it, even though she had survived her freshman year and now was a “sophisticated” sophomore. Sure, it was nice to be independent, and going to school in Sunny Florida was a nice departure from her home in Ma...
