“Good is restraint in body, good is restraint in speech, good is restraint in mind, good is restraint everywhere. The one restrained in everything is freed from all sorrow.”
–Dharmapada 361 Read more
I pulled my feet under the blanket, careful not to disturb Piper. While he was quite old for a cat, he still would playfully bite wiggling toes when given the chance. Perturbed with my movement, he took great care as he resituated himself atop my blanket, snuggling closer and looking for warmth.
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It was loud. I had been around the block a time or two, so I had heard noisy crowds, but it never got dull. It was a force in the air, a bowel loosening, throat tightening physical thing that made your pulse race a little bit more, and your eyes narrow to slits. Read more
While others were fearful of his words, it was his silence that terrified me.
Not the silence that Mom chose to adorn herself with whenever he was in one of his moods–this silence was different. Read more
Life is easy to ignore. I just have to close my eyes and make the entire world disappear. It’s a secret I have never told anyone except the wind and the carpet of ocean straining far into the horizon. Read more
There are some silences that are self-imposed. Every family has things which everyone has agreed not to talk about. Unless someone disagrees.
I am usually that person. Read more
I remember she rode the bus to and from school with me my freshman year of high school. Freshman year. High School. That time in most of our lives when our main priority is to belong, when the survival-of-the-trendiest mentality pushes against anyone who swims upstream whether they do so by chance or by choice. And even though in her case it was by chance–genes, biology–she was so…different. Read more
The old Everlast shoebox has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time now,…
My body is a cage
That keeps me from dancing with the one I love
But…
Great story. You did a good job with the dialogue here.February 1, 9:00 am by Anastacia Campbell
