Chains
I unlocked the chains myselfso you could run awayand be restrained by no one else.I unlocked the chains myselfbut you returned just to rebel.Do you think this is a game?I…
Voices
If I were not a writer,you might think me insanefor the voices in my head—each one has a nameand a personalitythat is distinctly theirs.They are who I hearwhen you see…
Try
Some say it is better to try and to failthan never to try at all.Though faith may be strong, egos are frail,some say it is better to try and to…
18
She could not wait to turn 18and leave her family home,to break out of captivity;she could not wait to turn 18.No curfews or authorities,she imagined the unknown.She could not wait…
Vickie (Part Two)
My sister saw their car and shouted, “Oh no, you are not riding in that!” The car seemed to limp and its grill had been reattached with loose rope, but…
Vickie (Part One)
Vickie claimed I said something snooty to her during typing class about why she shouldn’t strike the keys without paper in the machine—and that’s how we met—but I had no…
Responsibility
I had my alarm set for 4:45 am. I didn’t need to get up until 5:00 but I wanted the extra fifteen minutes to lie still and quietly contemplate the…
Time
I was running about ten minutes late for my shift at the grocery store but figured I could make up the time if I took the back streets to avoid…
… and Marriage
I can’t tell you how I met my husband. I can tell you how I met the man I married but we had been married a good three years before…
Menagerie
“Stop,” she instructed the band midway through the first verse. Either they weren’t playing to her tempo or she wasn’t singing to theirs, but the music that blared from the…