Category: Creative Nonfiction
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The Woman Who Missed the Miracles
She sat on the porch each morning with death gathered in her lap. Not the death of bodies, but the quieter kind—the dead things people carry long after they have ceased to nourish anything. False holiness polished until it shone like brass. Gossip tucked beneath her tongue like a bitter mint. Pretenses pinned carefully to…
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Pinched Off the Block
For Susan Sue stands at her kitchen counter,cutting a piece of cheddarfrom the block she keeps there—not cold from the refrigerator,but soft beneath the knife,warm enough to releaseits sharp, familiar scent.She lifts it to her mouth,and before she can finish chewing,the kitchen fades.She is a little girl againin the early seventies,standing beside Mydaddyon the front…
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My Joy
My joy begins where the first light slips through the longleaf pines of North Florida, painting the forest floor in ribbons of gold. Before the roads awaken and the world remembers its hurry, I find peace in the hush of creation—in the rustle of palmettos, the chorus of songbirds, and the gentle breeze that carries…
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Deciding Whether to Plug In
The breaker blew sometime before dawn—a quiet failure, the house holding its breath. By morning the electrician arrived with a tool belt and calm hands. The breaker, it turned out, hadn’t really blown at all. It came back on the moment he flipped it—the same breaker I had flipped several times before finally calling him.…
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PEACEFUL REVERIE
In the tender light of morning, I find myself on the porch swing, gently swaying to the rhythm of a new day. The air is crisp, carrying the sweet scent of dew-kissed grass, mingling with the faint aroma of blooming flowers. As the first rays of sunlight pierce through the canopy of trees, they cast…
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New Year’s Eve, 2025
By the final hours of 2025, the year feels less like a checklist and more like a conversation I didn’t quite finish. The resolutions I once announced with confidence now sit quietly in the corners of my mind—unmet goals, half-built habits, dreams postponed rather than abandoned. I didn’t become the version of myself I imagined…
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Small Rebellion: A Christmas Story
The fourth-grade classroom at Avalon Elementary smelled faintly of pencil shavings and floor wax. Construction paper wreaths were crookedly taped to the walls, their glitter shedding onto the linoleum whenever someone brushed past. Outside, Naples winter meant open windows and salt in the air, not cold, but December still arrived with a kind of expectation.…
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SOUL-SKIN
Have you ever felt like you know something about yourself intrinsically but didn’t know it on a conscious level? Then one day, a day like the many that have come and gone, you have a self-realized moment. In that moment, it is like someone switched the light on and a revelation fell from the sky.…
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Final Goodbye
She lay with her head on his chest, feeling the rise and fall and listening to the beating of his heart. She synced her breathing with his until their hearts were in unison. Occasionally, she would turn her head just so, to watch him sleep. In awe of his beauty, she was. She’d wonder how…
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From the Bottom of the Well, Hope Rises
She lay there at the bottom of the well without a clue as to how she got there. She does not remember the fall or how long she has been there. But long enough that she has forgotten how to climb. Her mind is numb, almost dead. She cannot formulate thoughts. She has forgotten how…
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