Für Elise It’s so cold. And white. As far as the eye can see, which isn’t far. My fingers and toes feel like they’ve seceded from the United Appendages of Tom. Beneath my thermal headgear, I’m sure my lips and eyelids have turned a lovely cyan – the color you might […]
holiday writing experiment
Skating The recent snowfall made tracking Brian and Connie child’s play. Anyone could tell the difference between the teens’ tracks and the shuffle of the dead. They had left Alexandria without warning so Darryl volunteered to bring them back. Step, step, step… step… shuffle, step, step, shuffle – their footsteps reminded him of Morse code. These […]
Skating
Snow Ice, cracking and buckling, broke the pristine silence. A pair of size four footprints led away from the hole in the river, up the riverbank, and through the woods. Those footprints belonged to me and I was running as fast as my little legs would carry me. It was half a mile between […]
Snow
The Season’s Upon Us The front door flung open and a man paused in the doorway letting in what little daylight existed as well as the snow storm that had raged all day. An enormous, billowy cloud of heat and smoke escaped through the open door. Imaginative passersby might believe a giant dragon was […]
The Season’s Upon Us
2000 Miles Jessica’s glasses fogged as she sipped a steaming cup of cocoa and gazed out her front window. Snow, steady and soundless, fell through the tar black night. The house was so still since her husband left. Kristopher, my love, where are you? She sighed as her thoughts conjured memories. In recent months, Kristopher began bringing […]
2000 Miles
Christmas Wrapping Bobbi MacKenzie had seen it all in her twenty years as an NYPD homicide detective. Or so she thought. She strode through the door of the Upper West Side apartment to her partner, Joe Tolle. She had that gimme-the-facts-skip-the-bullshit expression she’d honed over the years. “You’re not gonna believe this,” […]