Hey! I’m new at creative writing, and I’m using this app to practice so I can get better. I write poems every now and again but would love to be able to write a book :)
Hey! I’m new at creative writing, and I’m using this app to practice so I can get better. I write poems every now and again but would love to be able to write a book :)
As the elevator opens, I watch the smartly dressed passengers walk past me. I get on and push the eleventh floor. I really want to take a deep breath, but I’m not sure about how my breath smells, and I don’t have mints. Great, now I’m sweating. The elevator stops at four, five, seven, nine, then eleven. Stepping out, I try to find the directory in the floor lobby. There it is: Jenkins and Associat...
Donnie and I finished our meal, and I started packing things away. He went to check on the egg, to make sure it hadn’t moved or fallen out of the dog bed we gave it. Benji, our border collie had passed 3 months ago, not too long before we found the egg on that hiking trail. It felt like an omen. Permission to move on.
“All tucked in” Donnie said softly, as if he’d wake the baby.
“I guess we...
I knew your scent from a lifetime ago
Drawing me closer without being caught
You have wafted past me in my dreams
And I’ve followed you
Hoping you would come back
Hoping you would stay this time
You’ve been in and out of my fairytales
The what if’s I craft for myself when life becomes routine;
when life gets real
My secret hiding place that won’t be still
I wish you would,
Just once
I thought yo...
It happened so suddenly. One minute he was here, the next he wasn’t. I knew he had some health issues in the past, but he never let me know how serious, or if it would be something we would have to worry about down the road. So I didn’t worry. And how could you with Rashaad? He was the one that always made everyone else feel better. Always with a laugh, a silver lining. How soon you could forget y...
When Veronica met John, he was the perfect package - successful, kind, romantic. She thought she had met her person. In the beginning, he truly wined and dined her. Nice dinners, random gifts and flowers, then later on in their relationship came the trips all over the world. She had no idea how he made his money, not really anyway. He said something about investments, and she didn’t know about tho...
“Mommy, is today Saturday?” Gracie had been waiting and waiting for Saturday to come. Saturday was our day to go to the pig park on the other side of town. The one with the twisty slide she loved.
“Yes Gracie, it’s Saturday. Go brush your teeth and get dressed”, I said, wiping the sleep out of my eyes. She jumped off my bed and ran towards her room. I got up and made my way to the kitchen. _Cer...
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew it was going to come to this. Tanya and I are just not the same, and one of us won’t survive the other. I’ve heard a saying that there’s room for us all. Well, that’s a lie, at least as far as she and I are concerned. The world is NOT big enough for both of us. The universe must choose.
Years ago, I would have agreed, though. As a teen who was an outsider...
I knew I wasn’t supposed to go under there. But 7 years olds don’t always do what they’re told. I thought it would be a great place to hide during hide and seek or Saturday morning before we kids got our chore assignments. The chair had a funky smell: a mix of sweat, old upholstery and a cologne my dad stoped wearing at least a year prior. It was brown and plaid, plush and scratchy. It sat next to...
I tried to brace myself as best I could, but I knew this wasn’t going to be good. The AI hybrids said there was some sort of malfunction, but weren’t they programmed to catch these things? Or fix them? When the lights started to flicker like sparklers on America’s birthday, the humans on board screamed. A muffled version, not horror film gold. As the turbulence got more violent, more people cried ...
_This isn’t the way I thought this would go_, said Darrel amid spurts of trying to catch his breath. He was paddling (hard) down river, trying to get to the little nook he had seen yesterday. There was (he thought had remembered) a piece of the land hidden by thick tall trees that he could just melt into and slip away. The only thing is he couldn’t remember exactly where it was. He knew he’d have ...