Aurora Award Nominated Author
I knew it would be a day of opposites. In the morning, saying farewell to one life and in the evening, celebrating another. In the end, however, there was joy and sadness at both. The funeral celebrated a life long lived of a much… Continue Reading “Sorrow and Joy – A Poem”
When we were younger, we spoke our own language. It would be undecipherable to the casual listener, but it was our own tongue, one that only we could understand. As we grew older, teachers would keep us apart in different classrooms, afraid that we… Continue Reading “An Ocean of Time – A Poem”
I was sitting in the clouds when I first saw you. Looking down on the world that I’d removed myself from, it was your light that I saw first, that brilliant light that shone from you, right up to the clouds. I was happily… Continue Reading “Lost Boy Found – A Poem”
The idea of family is foreign to me. Growing up, I had a family, but I always felt like I didn’t belong. I was the black sheep wearing a second skin, the unknowable one, bearing myself to every one, the odd one out. I… Continue Reading “The Family Tree – A Poem”
Jenna Carver is another woman than before. Before, she hid from the man she loved in the name of protecting her daughter. Before, she shied away from the passion that Farrell brought out in her. Before, she was constantly afraid. Now, Jenna is on… Continue Reading “Eternal by Michelle St. James – A Book Review”