“I mean no disrespect,” she says as she turns to walk away, ” I just can’t do it anymore. I no longer have the energy to explain myself to you.”
She trembles a bit as she begins to take those first steps, recognizing that metaphorically speaking, she has just taken the most difficult step of [...]

Her eyes betray her. She’s never been able to mask any emotion with her face. She is the proverbial open book. If only she were like those other girls, the ones who can smile and flirt shamelessly with witty comebacks. They are the ones who are in full control of their [...]

Laziness and comfort creep in as welcome guests on this quiet day.
Although relaxing together, each member of the family is separated by their own individual thoughts, connected only by the melody. The younger one imagines stories that seem to follow the crescendo of the tune as she constructs characters and fairy tales. While [...]

Her life is spent between pages. Someone else’s words feed her soul. Someone else’s thoughts and characters have become embedded in the tapestry of her life. But, where do they end and where does she begin? Her mind is not an empty vessel, after all, waiting to be filled with the [...]