“These worldly desires are a trap,” said the hermit and travelled far in search of purpose.
Debts paid and children fed – his wife had found hers.
Category: Competition
Competition
Life
Life is a journey so fierce, yet so exciting that one can not comprehend with what struggles may be waiting ahead.
That is why we must remember; desserts is stressed spelt backwards.
Sour Apples
He wanted to be like Lennon, which made me McCartney, I guess. We never needed George or Ringo – nor, as it turned out, Yoko.
Honey?
She started saying to me “At 9:09, I’m gonna do something that won’t hurt me, but it will hurt you.” I woke up panting, relieved it was a dream, but the clock read 9:08, my wife woke up.
Fear
A lone figure stands, unmoving atop a bridge. She reaches for the rails, and places one leg over, the rhythm of her heart blaring in her ears.
Thank God for ivy
This old wood fence needs fresh paint; but, ah, the ivy begins its gentle climb. Maybe the paint can wait.
Death bed
A husband is sitting at his wife’s death bed holding her hand while she is under the influence of morphine and she is mad, not knowing who the person is, because she cannot open her eyes but hears and feels his touch. After ten minutes her anger subsides and gives way to fantasy that the person holding her hand is a childhood love who has come to say good-bye.
Stranger
Silhouetted by the silvery moonlight, he was tall and wore a long overcoat. What he was doing staring up at me as I watched from my high bedroom window, I did not know.
Love and Life
Hand in hand the young lovers strolled along the beach, reveling in the clear blue sky, feeling the kiss of the sun on their nearly naked bodies, admiring the sea gulls and pelicans, and appreciating this perfectly spoil-free day, when they stopped to embrace and exult in the wonder and beauty of all that life had to offer.
Then they spotted him, lying at the edge of the sand dunes, his eyes closed, with his arm extended, the syringe still protruding from his bleeding veins, and it was at that moment that their innocence was stripped from them much like life had been stripped from the young drug addict.
Valentine Lick
We swapped chocolate love hearts and smiled like naughty teddy bears. I’ll lick yours if you lick mine.
Never Alone
Being buried alive is bad enough. Not being alone in your own grave is worse.
Future
Had a firm grasp I thought – I wonder if he liked it? I just hope I get passed the initial interview.
The bodyguard
A wannabe bodyguard’s goes to the rich man’s house for an interview. He finds him lying in his own blood.
the sun
i rise. i set
The Princess of Manhattan
Each dusk the princess rubs Estee Lauder Night Repair serum all over her ex-prince while he lies on black velvet, inside a glass coffin. She adds his visitors to her collection.
The sky’s on fire and she’s got a bad song stuck in her head.
The car hums like a big hungry cat as it skims across the desert on a foot-high cushion of air which smells faintly of ozone and lilacs. She reloads her guns and leans out the passenger-side window; the cops are still hot on our trail, but not for long.
Gratitude
She was barely seventeen and had seen more pain than most. But when he looked into her eyes, all he saw there was gratitude.
Romeo and Juliet
They were best friends forever, till they died in an accident. And then, they lived happily ever after.
Obsession
He came dangerously close to destroying his world by continuously rebuilding it around hers. But in the blindness of devotion and obsession, the blindness of love, he could not see the falling night of his sanity and freedom.
Uninvited Guests
Jumping impossibly high and skipping all over their new habitat, they would stop only to quench their thirst.
They found this new habitat warm and inviting; that is, until the dog dislodged them with several well-placed kicks and scratches.