As I wake, or at least my eyes and brain began to focus on the same things, I can see from the blurry image that I am inside. It is a small hut or shack, I can only see the room I’m in and from the floor at that. I can not move my body,…
My writing tends to suggest that I am in my thirties or forties because I want to seem closer in age to the young audience who dominate the Lush family. In truth, I’m a good bit older. Of course, things we publish here don’t have to be factual. As it happens, this new story–from about…
It was the fall of 1993. My fiancĂ© Ali, who is now my wife, and I had had just graduated from college the prior May. Ali was a classic beauty who could be accurately described as the prototypical pretty young elementary teacher. I knew when I met her she would make a wonderful mother which…
When the battle is lost or wonAnd the fighting is in recessAnd we’ve done all that can be doneWhen we’ve gathered all the strength we can possess Tell me that hope is not goneThat there is more that I can doThat my binds with dawnAre as strong as my ties are with you. When I…
“No turning back,” I whisper as the front of the bus comes into view. I wrap my arms around my waist cautiously as I approach, a frown forming on my lips as I see red and blue lights glisten on the side of the bus. “They didn’t,” I say in disbelief. Sure enough, two police…
