Feel the burn: it sears throughout the body as your legs struggle against the gravity of the hill you climb. Each step you take against this adversary, brings you closer to the goal you set: the summit that beckons closer with every passing moment. Everything crystallizes into this moment.   Read more….. »

In the black of midnight, you don’t expect things to change; too much hides in its dark shadows. Even if you blink yourself awake to try to fight it, you succumb to its slumber; the surreal becomes your reality.   Read more….. »

The house is empty. You hear the moving van taking the last bits of memories away, and then it fades away. Everything now is just as it was in the beginning, stripped of pretensions and presumptions. It is its own essence.   Read more….. »

There you are, walking past me like I don’t exist, but I know you see me. Damn you, you are a liar. Everything that you said to me was part of, what? I don’t even know.   Read more….. »

Hey, who are you? I see you hanging out all the time in here, but you never say anything, hello or anything else, nothing.   Read more….. »

“……. and I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese with him, but no more. My mother-in-law wants to take him, so, as far as I’m concerned, good riddance.   Read more….. »

Night: there is darkness on the road that we move on: but inside here, at least for short time, there is warmth.   Read more….. »

You know, it’s like I have this kind of plan: I am going to get married? And then have kids? But I am going to finish college first I don’t know what it is I want to be?   Read more….. »

“Hello?”
“Cin, it’s me Becky. You ready for your date with Steven?”

“Sure, man. I’m like, so nervous. Becky, like Steven’s real fine, man. Don’t you think?”   Read more….. »

It had come out of nowhere, this avalanche, the one that deterred Mike and her from reaching the summit of Mt. Rainier, the one that now rendered her incapacitated, frozen. Strange to be lying so still, when she is supposed to be climbing, moving forward. She is tempted to try and get up anyway, but the pain in her leg hurts too much for even her to move. She hates to admit defeat, that the elements have gotten an edge on her. Her whole adult life she has spent in defiance of them. Now she is at Nature’s mercy, must work with Her if she is to survive. She has to keep focused. Mike will soon be back with help, camp is only several hundred feet from here. It is starting to snow. But she must not panic, must keep her mind clear. She must fight her mind even as it wants to sleep, take her away. She must think of overcoming it like the mountains she has always conquered. She will strive for victory; life is victory now.   Read more….. »

She stared out of the window. She kept expecting to hear noises from upstairs, from outside; noises which had been everyday and commonplace for all those years. But there was nothing. There hadn’t been any for what seemed like years now. Yet, still she waited.

Her so-called friends avoided her now. You’re crazy, they would say. You should get on your life. Forget the past. It’s been so long now. Like a year of time should make one dance for joy after the world had been ripped from you.   Read more….. »