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5 Things I saw – December 2022
Number 1 of 5 #1 . Three secret Santa gifts…Anyone ever take part in a Secret Santa gift exchange? I haven’t for many years. I remember one in high school when I was the new girl. By some unknown, freak, altered universe for a few months I was grafted into the medium cool girl’s click.…
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Behold the Beauty
Do You See It? It was one of their first evenings in the new apartment. “You can always find beauty wherever you are on planet earth,” Hal said all philosophical like. “Yes, the sunset is gorgeous,” Tina said. “That shade of pink-orange and the subtle peach…” Hal chuckled. “That’s not what I’m talking about.” “The…
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Foundation of Life
Kendra remembered her mother’s words, “If the ocean swells, we’ll go to that high place and be safe.” “Why is our house not on top of the rock then?” “Because the winds blow day and night. It’s a hard life.” “But we’d always be safe.” Her answer, “We are safe enough here.” Kendra stood…
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Nana, Bread and Everything In-between- Non-fiction Nemesis.
Fiction and non-fiction writing have obvious differences, namely the made up part of fiction. Though, any fiction writer will tell you pieces of non- fiction show up in every tale. There are pitfalls that both have in common too, and even as I write this I have to guard against one of them. It starts…
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See No Evil – 100 Words
“The human mind does not stay within lines. It adjusts to trauma any way it can, always seeking a way to balance. You know that, right? It was a rhetorical question, of course. At least that’s how Kris took it. No way would she tell her doctor that the reason she could only see in…
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Guarded Words
If I don’t speak, You can’t hear me. In the silence, I can say what burns in me to say, And you can’t capture it, Twist it into a weapon and throw it back at me. But oh, I have forgotten as I type, The words trail off into cyberspace, I must switch to paper…
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Clare Graith 