Stories tagged death

The Highwayman Teaches Me About Sex and Death

16201620 views1010 comments88 favs

hooves moon dark latch eyes rope / Bess the landlord's daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter / gun breasts dress shame shouts blood blood blood

The Juniper Days – Part III

7171 views00 comments00 favs

I flew to Madrid. Though, at the time, it felt like standing still. Nothing happened quickly enough the second after I had read that journal entry.

(4) Caution

10521052 views00 comments00 favs

“You shouldn’t have gone inside,” he said, after she told him what had happened. “I know that’s what you’re used to doing here, with people we know. But he’s not from around here. Don’t go back over there, okay?”

Eggshell White Frigidaire

12341234 views55 comments55 favs

He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.

Dakota

15721572 views00 comments00 favs

I am warming up the Hotel Hugo courtesy shuttle van when Victor the front desk manager comes striding out waving his arms asking me why I haven't backed up yet. Victor says I'm always in my own world when I should be paying attention to the work at hand,

My 50th birthday

12581258 views00 comments00 favs

A customary phone call from home. What are you doing she says? Playing football I retort – what else. The usual sigh and a faint giggle followed. Much unlike how it backfired back in the late 20’s and we were going to make it the reason to break up! The p

Science Homework

13531353 views22 comments22 favs

The difficulty of disabled parenting was predictable, but nothing could prepare me for having to say goodbye to my wife again on problem #7.

Waiting

1717 views1010 comments00 favs

"You know, you don't have to fight it so much."

One Cent Baby

18491849 views11 comment22 favs

Yesterday, I ripped off Dollar General. Today my baby died. Tomorrow I will file a lawsuit. After all, someone has to pay.

Cellini's Salt Cellar

47304730 views88 comments22 favs

An old man writes the story of his life into a book.

Aforementioned

13151315 views22 comments22 favs

I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...

Woman, Running Late, in a Dress

55215521 views2424 comments1717 favs

Gasps and shouts, a hand on my arm, sequined gowns and expensive colognes parting before me. And then, there, Raymond’s crumpled form on the hardwood floor of the foyer, like a sleeve torn from a jacket, the stitches frayed and useless.

Movement

16441644 views3131 comments1616 favs

Everyone is botching everything, even the rescue team. They can't get to me. I am surrounded by people who don't know a fatal wound when they see one. I am so determined to live that I become bossy.

Headstone III

14901490 views2828 comments2121 favs

My only brother. Frantic flesh clings to bone.

Bucolic

11911191 views44 comments22 favs

He could smell the vestiges of alcohol on his folks. They’d let him stay up till midnight to mark the new year, and his mother had sneaked him a taste of her whisky. He remembered now what she’d last said before sending him off to bed, how strange it soun