Archive for the ‘Coughs’ Category
Lactose Diet
He digs into his bowl with a spoon encased in a small hill of natural peanut butter. He takes his first bite… starting to chew slower with each motion, inadvertently making a face while trying to place the newly discovered taste in a dish known to him. Lemons? He wasn’t quite sure, the peanut butter [...]
Apology
This is for the time I threw the rock that hit you in the head. Bad. For smoking that cigarette to try and fit in. For not loving you back. For making plans with you for lunch and leaving you waiting. Then running into you outside afterward. For stealing $5 from your wallet for comic [...]
His Misses
He walks back to his bed and pauses midway as he stares at her lying on her side, asleep, draped in his sheets. He tries to feel his heartbeat with the palm of his right hand, forcing his mind to save this memory. She stirs. He smiles. He strolls in the park and sees a [...]
The Abyss Stares Back Into You
He hovered over the sink, naked, and stared at the mirror again tonight, straight into his undilated pupils, and he wondered to himself where his tears were. He couldn’t stop shaking, no matter how hard he gripped the sink with his bandaged hands. He then looked down and asked himself another question, the same one [...]
Faith
He stood there, amazed at what he just heard. “Do you have faith?” he had asked him. He thought he had anticipated every response, but not this. He paused, tried to remember again why he was here, to convince himself one more time that this was what was needed. Maybe this time he wouldn’t be [...]