Miss Take

Written for a few years. Got popular on another site, but decided some of the things going on there weren’t for me. The experience left me with a raging case of writer’s block. Starting fresh with the goal of falling back in love with writing.

Miss Take

There Is A Man Sleeping In My Son’s Bed

Miss Take

1 min read

There is a man sleeping in my son’s bed

Dark hairy legs hanging off the bed

Where’s the crib?

There is a man sleeping in my son’s bed

Sharp jawline and morning stubble

Where’s the toy razor and bubble bath?

There is a man sleeping in my son’s bed

Muscled arms crossed over his head

Where’s the baby fat?

There is a man sleeping in my son’s bed

“Good Morning, mom,” he says, his voice s...

Poetry

Reflections Of A Title Holder

Miss Take

1 min read

“Fight!”

You watch the girl for the slightest hint of movement.

_Her hair is brown._

There is always a tell in these demonstrations that gives you a way past their defenses.

“Well, get on with it,” the general’s voice is rough with annoyance. He’d ordered her to incapacitate this one.

She puts her fists up, lose and weak, noddle arms.

_Her eyes are green._

Her smile catches you b...

Help

Miss Take

3 min read

“I have a doctor’s appointment today,” Anna said. “Can you take the kid’s to school?”

Henry sucked his teeth. “ I would but I have to go on early tomorrow. They can ride the bus, right?”

“Abigail is still getting bullied.”

He rolled his eyes. “She just needs to fit back. If you want her taken then you take her. You have the day off right?”

After an argument that left her too worked up for slee...

Adventure

Fantasy

A Bottle Of Rum

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2 min read

Ghosts are not real.

Ghosts pirates were definitely not fucking real.

Logically Adam knew this.

But, knowing that didn’t make the illogical ghost pirate ship slicing through the water a few feet behind his kayak any less real.

“Give it up, son,” the man? Ghost? Zombie? leaning over the rail rasped.

Adam ignored him, paddling with everything in him. His arms screamed in protest. Fire blossome...

Thriller

Horror

Good Boy

Miss Take

3 min read

The hand on her ass jolted her out of her thoughts. (Insert Disney Princess name) tripped forward, nearly catching her heel in a crack in the sidewalk. She’d been reading through her dating app messages on her lunch break, deleting one pic of a unimpressive wrinkled member after another. What the hell kind of pervert would grobe her in the park, so close to the play ground. She turned to give the ...

Romance

Humour

Trying New Things

Miss Take

1 min read

“What about him?” I say to my husband angling his phone towards him.

Bran leans over, flicks through the album on Grindr. He stops at the most explicit image. “He’s big.”

“He seems kinda.” I turn the phone sideways, from this angle the guy is even bigger. “Big.”

“Nah.” He flashes me that devilish smile that made my knees weak when we first met five years ago. “Just right.”

I feel guilty for no...

Romance

Mirror Mirror In My Hand

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1 min read

I hold the camera up as high as I can.

Hold.

Smile.

Damn, too much teeth.

Purse my lips.

Classic duck face, but it works for me.

I push the button.

The camera takes the selfie. My bathroom lighting is all wrong. Nothing a lot of Photoshop won’t fix though.

I send the picture to my laptop.

In a few clicks of the mouse. I am 10 pounds skinner. 10 years older. And standing on a beach.

...

Horror

Sertaline

Miss Take

1 min read

If she looked down, she’d see them.

Long dead hands reach. They grasp blindly. Cracked and broken fingernails crawl across the old wood.

She fixes her eyes ahead. The mist is a curtain, both metaphorically and realistically. The land of death and destruction lives behind her. Her new life and safety waits in front of her. Just beyond the mist.

All she has to do is make it to the end without loo...

Horror

Time Is No Man’s Friend

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1 min read

“Ready?” Jones asked, trying to sound more confident than she felt. The only time traveling she’d done had been in a simulator at the academy,

Wilson nodded, “In ten.”

One.

Jones squinted at the

started with a rash. The doctors at the base shrugged. Members of the time traveler corp were always picking up weird rashes and illnesses humanity no longer had a need to build up immunities again...

Adventure

Science fiction

Come To Bear

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1 min read

“It was ten feet tall!” your brother says.

You try to ignore him as you pull the trash bang out of the kitchen can and tie it.

“With claws this long.” He holds his hands a foot apart as you stand at the door.

“Yeah, right.” You grab a flashlight and push past him out the front door.

The heavy wood slams shut behind you. It’s so dark you can’t see trash bag at your side. No stars. No moon. Ju...

Action