I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas I remember my bedroom as though it was yesterday. It had what I assume are the same trappings of any twelve year old girl. The bedspread was a royal purple hue, the drapes lavender, and the carpet shaded more lilac than any other chromatic […]

Christmas One week before Christmas and Mark stood on the Massachusetts Bridge pondering the distance to the ice and water below and how quickly it would all end. The children with loving parents watched the snowfall and imagined a Christmas morning with presents and joy in abundance. Mark watched the […]

Silent Night Cora clutched the scissors as she stared at herself in the full-length mirror hanging from her bedroom closet. Something was different this morning, but what? She looked around her room and then back to herself again as thoughts filled her head. Same sleep-filled eyes that you somehow can’t […]