A Writer's 21st Century Memoir.
Go read part one first! Don’t look back! Don’t look back! All I could think about was making a break for it, but my flashlight was shining on a rock in the middle of nowhere with a message telling me not to. “What do we do?” I said. Matt looked up and into the ravine, [...]
I am home alone in my chair in the dark The clock strikes twelve and I wonder where the time has gone. I decide to go to bed, and so I begin to get up But to my surprise I hear a knocking at my door. I decide to ignore it and continue onto [...]
It was a beautiful spring morning. The sun’s warming light gently entered the windows of the apartment in between the thick green leaves that sprung after fall. “Come here you sneaky bastard!” Inside the apartment stood a woman wearing a flowery pattern covered sundress. She had long curly black hair that fell gently across her [...]
The loving look that was held in my father’s eyes made everyone stop and smile at the man lying in the hospital bed. Finally alive and awakened from a deep coma, my dad was laughing and elated to see my mom and my siblings there and happy that he is back in our lives. This [...]
Frank had read the diary over the shoulder of his daughter and had seen the distraught and helplessly sad look in her eye when she read the last sentence. I wonder if this cigarette could be the thing that lets me leave this place… The Angel of Death doesn’t kill anyone; she has just been [...]
The chills that run up through your spine as you flip through the pages of a dead person’s diary is far more surreal than anything else that you can think of. The words scribbled in between the lines on the page pierce my heart as they bring my father back to life, but even as [...]
Do all what you can with your eyes before you go blind. Let the light that still shines through guide what’s in your mind. Look at the beautiful flowers with their petals filled with dew. Watch the rainbow grow with every vivid color and hue. Frank had seen this embroidered on a pillow once. [...]
“I’m really not sure of how you operate, but why would you put me in a room with a person that you don’t want me to talk to,” Frank said the Angel of Death now sitting on a gravestone in the town’s local cemetery. “You guys obviously worked out the whole communication thing.” The angel [...]
I feel the palpitating beating of my heart fluttering out of control, and as I breathe in the frigid air, my chest tightens as I lose my grasp within the terror. I really did believe that I was having a heart attack, and I thought, if I did die from it at least my dad [...]
He used to peer inside his pocket mirror past his reflection and at his door’s manifestation in the corner. Frank often wondered if he could pass the barrier that separated himself from the parallel universe beyond this looking glass. He knew that beyond the door in the world that he lived in was the rest [...]