Sandra W

I write a lot. This is not to say I don’t suck. Positive and negative feedback welcome at all times.

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Sandra W

I write a lot. This is not to say I don’t suck. Positive and negative feedback welcome at all times.

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WheN I Look In The Mirror

Sandra W

1 min read

I can’t stop looking at my reflection, and I don’t want to.

I want to stare into this glorious crystal— I want it to share its reversed truths with me. I want it to tell me absolutely everything I’ve missed in the past eighteen years.

Oh, but _would_ that a mirror could remember.

But it doesn’t, and the images reflected on them are not trapped within their frame, and the sight is gone faste...

Horror

Don’t Walk Home Alone

Sandra W

1 min read

You never know what roams the streets of this city.

It hides in the night and the mist and the fog. It disappears in the foliage of crooked alleyways and senseless dead-end streets, and it is forgotten amidst the crowds of passersby who do their best to forget that there is strength in numbers.

The clicking of solitary heels against the pavement disrupts the stillness.

It is not night, but t...

The Choice

Sandra W

3 min read

First and foremost, I would like to make it abundantly and transparently clear that I am not happy with this proposal either, but it had to be made.

You may choose not to believe me, but this was the lesser of all evils, all things considered— whoever disagrees with this, I formally invite to propose an alternate solution. I assure you, whatever you offer, I can give you five reasons it would not...

Horror

Thriller

Loss

Sandra W

1 min read

Loss hits differently when you’re the one walking away.

You can tell yourself it’s for the best, that anyone in your position would do the same, if not now, then sooner. And yet it still feels like throwing the towel early. It feels like you’re done trying, and all the promises you made to yourself about seeing it to the end were gone with the wind. You feel like a liar.

But what else can you ...