I hope this isn’t too late.
It’s been a while since we talked, haven’t seen you in a couple years. I know I live right down the street from you but we seem to have fallen apart since the accident.
I remember the days we spent together now, the life we had. I remember making the mementos [...]

Breathe in, breathe in, breath in ouchouchouch exhale. Crap.
I wonder briefly what might have happened if I had waited for just two more minutes. Silmar had asked me to stay for dinner, I could have- I wasn’t in that much of a hurry. It was only a four hour drive from Nashville, and it was [...]

Shake of the head.
I’ll miss you, but only for a while…
Pat the empty pockets, look up in shock. Forget home, forget love, forget everything. Step forward and accept your fate.
Cold. Not like walking through Boston at midnight in the dead of winter- more like the exact opposite of Hell, but not heaven. Ice numbs in [...]

He spent a silent era sitting, just sitting in the darkness as the world outside plunged ahead as it always had. But in here, there was quiet. Travis was unaware of exactly how long it had been- it had been a while, a long time, but time was an idea, and lately ideas were few [...]

Bob cheered as his favorite team scored the winning touchdown of the game. He was already wasted, but the after party was just beginning…
It had been a long couple days for Sylvie, working the graveyard shift at the hospital- three ICU drive-by victims had died, two fourteen year old girls and a toddler. No [...]

For Breath by Breaking Benjamin
Laziness hit an all-time high, or low- depends on your outlook on life. Cup Noodles in the container, run the tap as hot as it goes. Not hot enough. Damn. Pop the whole thing in the microwave, ignore the Laws of Logic and Reason: nuking plastic poisons the food. Screw it. [...]

Please do not disturb
the sign said.
Door number one.
Please do not disturb. The slightest perturbation could kill the occupant, sitting still and small on the bed. A small look into her mind reveals a chaos which is brutal in its relentless attack on her consciousness. Somehow sanity finds a clawhold and struggles to keep it. [...]

Time passes, life snowballs, gathering debris and dirt, eventually smashing into a tree and shattering. There’s a chance to start again but it won’t be much like its old self. The pieces fall to be gathered by other snowballing lives…
“What’s with all the furniture?”
“It’s for you.”
He climbed out of the truck, slammed the door halfway [...]