The Unwanted Within
I stopped checking under the bed years ago. The room smelled of dust and warm cotton. The fan clicked once per rotation, a loose screw tapping time. I lay flat, hands on my chest, listening to my own breathing as if it belonged to someone else. You missed something today. The voice did not echo.…
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.…
A POEM A DAY 194
A FISHERMAN’S TALE In the quiet embrace of dawn, when the world is still wrapped in a blanket of mist, an old fisherman prepares his boat for another day at sea. His weathered hands, calloused and strong, move with the grace of years spent navigating the vast, unyielding ocean. The salty breeze whispers secrets of…
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