The night, cold and heavy, crushed his lungs; like being buried alive by a thousand wet blankets. Liam’s sweat froze on his face and in his hair. He had to get past the wall, and across the border before the drones made another round. The snow swallowed every footstep, and every sound was a possible […]
A dream, she thought, if I pinch myself, I’ll wake up. But she didn’t want to wake up. She needed this world where she just won three million dollars! The faceless security men, dressed all in black, burst out of their trucks. Two of them grabbed her arms. She squirmed and wrenched but their grips […]
Those who know me know the seething rage I have at times with Game of Thrones. It’s not that I dislike the show (well Seasons 2 through 5 can go in the garbage), it’s that I know it could be so much better than mere “entertainment.” The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. […]
The black liquid seeped out of the pit we were going to bury Rex in and soon enough we forgot the dead dog and started writing all the ways we’d spend the money. First on our list was to buy Ma a new house. A huge house that’d show her all she meant to us. […]
In many great stories there is a character that fans will go to war over. Someone about whom everyone has an opinion. A character that rends the fan base in two, creating new battle lines where they’ve never existed before. Fans typically aligned with their favorite houses: Stark, Targaryen, Baratheon, Lannister, etc. But over the […]
I scratched dirt out from under the wig my son of a bitch husband hated. It’s the same cocoa color my real hair was, but he had left all the same. What man leaves a woman after four years for shaving her head? It’s fine, my dreams said he wasn’t the one anyways. Willie’s a […]