I wish I had never pulled that trigger. If I hadn’t, maybe things would be different. I would be snuggled on a couch at home, petting my dog, my wife beside me, my children playing on the rug.

But no. Here I am instead, in this dirty rotten jail cell. I sit on the cot, armed with a filthy sheet and a thin, moth eaten blanket. I curl up on it, tears streaming down my face as I think of what my lif...

Sitting in the boat, on a peaceful afternoon

Unknown to me, a shadow slinks underneath

The light catches just right

To reveal it to my eyes

The reaction is immediate

Heart pounding, blood rushing in my ears

Everything else is drowned out

I’m numb, I’m blind, I can’t feel

Everything is dark

As I grope at the wall

For a door, for a window

For a light switch, anything at all

People’s voices echo a...

You can’t light a match without expecting fire

You can’t go down a hill without climbing up

You can be loved without being liked

You can be hated with being disliked

You can’t spit in a face, then wonder why the person is angry

Common sense some don’t know...

I think I just met the happiest person in the world! It was only a couple minutes ago when I left my house. My hair was disheveled, my clothes were rumpled, and I was peeling a banana in one hand. Shortly after I left I realized I’d left my keys inside. “Oh no,” I muttered to myself, since it was natural instinct that I locked my door.

Luckily, my spare key was under the doormat, so I grabbed tha...

It’s cold. My fingers are numb, my toes are numb, my face is numb. Little icicles hang on my eyelashes, and the air is so freezing it feels like a thousand tiny knives are stabbing me over and over. It’s been an hour since we crash landed. Our ship is destroyed, communication systems broken, and there’s no way home. We’re on a foreign planet, far from home. I know that much. Home is warm, and here...