Tag: Grief

Finding Balance – A Memoir

I’ve accidentally started a new memoir. Some things never change, not really. I recently made a decision for myself, and it was the best decision I could have made, but it left scars as these things do. That decision had everything to do with… Continue Reading “Finding Balance – A Memoir”

The Unknown Stages of Grief – A Poem

Grief is malleable. It shifts and moves like water through the mind. There are steps that have been forgotten. Grief is a caterpillar in the cocoon, and it has to completely lose its form and become nothing before it takes its final shape, growing… Continue Reading “The Unknown Stages of Grief – A Poem”

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen – A Book Review

Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them. —ROSCOE AVANGER, Sweet Mallow Zoey is running towards something. The only problem is, she isn’t sure what she is running towards. She arrives on… Continue Reading “Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen – A Book Review”

The Fifth Stage – A Poem

I was in denial for weeks. I kept trying to pretend everything was okay, that I was all right but I was lying to myself and to those around me who could see through my façade because they knew me so well. Never very… Continue Reading “The Fifth Stage – A Poem”

Starfish and Emeralds – A Short Story

He saw them twice a day. Cedric lived right across from a bus stop. He didn’t mind it too much as he was far enough away that the noise wasn’t a bother. City buses stopped there several times a day. The one thing that… Continue Reading “Starfish and Emeralds – A Short Story”