There is no such thing as silence. Turn off everything in your house, sit there alone and you can still hear the wind outside and the buzz of electricity haunting your walls. Put a pillow over your head and you hear your blood thrumming in your ears. No fairy tale villain could ever command silence, [...]
Author: raindropfiction
I am a creative writer. I find inspiration through from my family, the view from my back porch, and the multi-colored window where I see and experience love.
A Distinct Approach
Memories approach like sneaky thieves, stealing your thoughts and leaving different ones. Some are pleasant like walking past a roasting nut cart, filling your senses with cinnamon and buttery nutmeg and others unexpectedly sting you like picking up the wrong end of a toothpick. Full of memoir potential, a single table with an umbrella zealously [...]
Learning To Swim
“Mama, can I go to the pool?” I ask. Without even looking up she says, “No, baby. I told you the pool at this hotel isn’t working.” I know the pool isn’t full of water because it is the first question I ask whenever we are about to choose another hotel. Still, I say “I [...]
Timely Distance
The birds weren’t a particularly recognizable species. Both type and size were undeterminable; they looked more like black pepper flecks spilled on a table cloth, moving across the sky from a warm breath. There were so many bird flecks that they became their own shadow cloud, causing anyone underneath to catch their breath at the [...]
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