Really just an amateur trying my hand at this.
We will never meet, it seems. You and I. Even though you live large in my dreams .....even though your face blurs, at times, your smile is genuine and kind.
By Katie 9 months ago in Poets
I walked, and walked. Looking......... Still it eluded me. I walked some more, guided towards a spot I did not know.
By Katie 10 months ago in Poets
It was all his idea of course. But being the older sibling I should have known better. Once we knew that they were there, the temptation was too great.
By Katie 10 months ago in Fiction
When I’m gone, and some day I will be gone, do I want some obscene monument to my having been here raised in a cemetery somewhere?
By Katie 11 months ago in Poets
I have my flaws, as we all do. I’ve tried, repeatedly, to do better. To be, better. They’re small things really, most wouldn’t even consider them an issue, or give them credence.
My words. I spread them here, like jam on toast. Adding flavor and texture to an otherwise empty page.
He sat quietly, hardly noticing the scenes rushing past the window of the speeding train. He was one of many, like sardines, they rode, absorbed by their own thoughts. Their own troubles. Pondering their lives lived in this manner.
By Katie 11 months ago in Fiction
This struggle that rules me so, I give myself to it freely. It is what I desire, it is what I truly want. Yet.......I find,
This dance of dances, we call life. Some, not all, dance easily. Their life flowing outward with abandon.
Standing at the window, the old man looked out at the rain. His thoughts, echoed the weather, dark and turbulent. On the couch lay his old uniform, pressed and ready.
The borderlands hadn’t been crossed in centuries. At least that was what everyone believed. All that had tried, had never returned to prove it was possible.
By Katie 12 months ago in Fiction
The silence was deafening, there was nothing more to be said. His time with this company had ended. Dumbfounded, he rose, turned, and left. Closing the door behind him quietly.