whisky. neat.

I didn’t see her come in but when I turned around there she was sitting at my bar. The woman slouched, propping herself up against the counter with what looked to be all of her strength. I was going to ask for ID but before I got a word out she muttered perfectly,...

shades of pink

“Do you see those flowers over there?” she asked as we walked down the lane. “There are more shades of pink in those petals than you can imagine. You could spend hours, days, even years studying them and never discover all their hues.” That was how she saw everything....

from the first words you wrote

“Someday” I once thought to myself, “Someday I’ll fall in love with a pretty girl with long blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She’ll have a charming laugh and a cute little nose. I hope she will stay by my side. She’ll be smart too and full of dreams for everything we...

a dream 11/18/19

In a dream there was a girl I had never met. A girl I had never seen. She had long brown hair that swayed like trees in a breeze. Her eyes mirrored butterfly wings opening and closing gracefully. When she smiled I felt a great weight on me. It was something heavy that...