Mercy
The girl couldn’t have been thirteen, but her eyes had seen more than mine ever will. Her faded hijab, encircling a face whose trauma belied… Read More »Mercy
The girl couldn’t have been thirteen, but her eyes had seen more than mine ever will. Her faded hijab, encircling a face whose trauma belied… Read More »Mercy
“I fought back. Pushed him. He fell. The spillway took him. Shame it didn’t finish the job.”
“Sweet dreams, Emmeline,” he whispered with a kiss on her temple, as a tear of his own threatened to fall. She looked more like her… Read More »Dragon, Nested
A big part of me was still in that cheap motel. I’ve lived my whole life in that motel. That one night defined me. It… Read More »One Pancake