Month: July 2025

• July 27, 2025

  7. The Divide

  I see myself when I was younger, and I hate him. Before those long wavy red locks turned gray. Before the smug smile of young knowledge was replaced by a smile to mask the incessant aches and pains. Before my passionate eyes faded to something with less twinkle and more haunting. Before the confidence of…
• July 20, 2025

  6. Tarot Sphinx

  I dropped the phone to the tabletop in exhaustion and let out a light moan to test whether I needed a good cry or to simply sit in the feelings for a minute. My sister was right, clearly: This space – less than 400 square feet including the staircase – was a dump. There was…
• July 13, 2025

  5. One Human’s Trash

  “Why do you read that garbage?” my mother-in-law asked as she took a seat at the small cafe table. I agreed to meet her here because she insisted on having a ‘good relationship’ with her daughter-in-law. What she really meant was she wanted to take every moment to tell me how to live my life,…
• July 6, 2025

  4. Doomsday

  The aliens were finally leaving. Two years and two months too late. When they first landed their giant reflective mansions – and yes, I mean the fee-fi-fo-fum kind – mankind tried to communicate. When that didn’t work, we used violence. We hardly scratched them, and they didn’t seem to take notice. They ignored us and…