Stories

A father tries to deal with the death of his son

What happens when your whole life leads you to believe that you are somehow broken and useless. How do you get through life feeling that way. What do you do if you reach the end of that rope? Do you reach out and to who? What happens if you are the one who is left with that person's note. Welcome to the world of Broken - a life.

Lee has had a hard life. And it gets even harder when he has a run in with the law. In an effort to keep the young man out of jail, he's sent to the campground, where he struggles to adapt.

Will he succeed, or is Lee too Broken to save?

The Athruvians and the Ç’HkïJaråans have been at war for longer than anyone cares to remember. Da Lahron's parents died while serving in a post destroyed by Ç’HkïJaråan soldiers. DhiM’kha's mother was a civilian who died in a civilian post attacked by Athruvian forces. Are they really that different from each other?

A poetic exploration of this glorious thing called life.

Everyone's talking about the end of the world. Really? Oh come on, its something that's been talked about since the beginning of time. 2012 is the end of the world...
Really?

this story chronicles the adventures Andrew Piper, a 20 year old facing life alone after the break up of a two year relationship between he and the man of his dreams. Follow him as he runs from his heartache, trying to find a way to erase his pain. Will he finally let go, or will his his broken heart lead him into a downward spiral of destruction?

This story is autobiographical in nature, but I have made some modifications to protect the identities of those included in it. All the names have been changed, and in some cases things such as gender, locations, and sometimes familial compositions have been altered.

All that being said, this is MY truth, and it's time I released it so that I'm free to create from a place other than brokenness and sadness.

This will be dark, but there are spots of light in the great black. No void is truly empty when one gazes into it. The light from our eyes illuminates more than we realize.

~Samuel

What do you do when your world is a pile of dung, and the one good thing is cruelly taken from you?

A short story of redemption.

Poems for National Poetry Writing Month - April 2023