It was a while after he left. She was distraught, needing answers as to why it happened to her. This is when I began filling the empty space. She said that “parents are humans too”. I don’t think she ever realized that she answered her own question......

For a moment, Jet forgot how to breathe. Then the guilt started flooding over her, guilt and fear and beneath it all, the constant current of anger. Goddammit, she thought. I don’t want to be here. I shouldn’t have to be here!

She dug her nails into her purse. Dimly, she noted how her lime nail polish had flaked against the black leather. She noted it the way she noted the brightness of the overhe...

It was 2004 when my mother departed this Earth. I can’t remember the day it happened, the funeral, how my father told me the news, any of it, even though I was nearly six years old at the time.

I can’t remember her face. It faded away into a nebulous sludge, like old memories tend to do. It washed away, lost into the deep abyss of time, reawakened only by dusty old photos stashed away in drawers...

“You never listen to me!” Sara shouted, stomping up the stairs in her Doc Martins, shaking every step on her way up. Martha waited for it, then heard the door slam shut, rattling on its hinges as Sara retreated to her bedroom. Martha paused again, as the music assaulted the quiet of the house for a few seconds and then all was quiet. Martha smirked. “Thank God for headphones”, she thought.

S...

Everyday is a different Story

Living in this apartment building

I watch children argue

Talking back to parents

Other kids hollar at the mom

While the dad is not at home

Many kids won’t listen

Hollering, cussing back at parents

Many are abusive,they do not have respect

Parents try to discipline

The children just get angry

Talking back and cursing

Showing no respect

Parents are human...