• Road Rage Saved the Day

    It was a four-way intersection. He honked at her as she sped up to turn right. In an unexpected move, he turned left and was then driving behind her. That’s when she rolled down her window, stuck out her hand and gave him the finger. She watched his face in her rear view mirror hoping to get some sort of reaction out of him, but his face was as serious as The Queen’s Guard’s. “Idiot,” she murmured. After a couple of turns, his car was no longer in sight. But five minutes later, they both pulled up into the same parking lot of a convenience store. “Oh for crying out…

  • Mortal Impossibilities

    Surprise me. Take me to the moon so many promises have failed to climb. Show me the sunset at sunrise. Will you make come true that song’s lines, and for me the Kilimanjaro climb a thousand times? You vow never to make mistakes, but human we are and we break. If I’m the sole reason that you breathe, promise you won’t die if I leave? Told me I’m more precious than the Stonehenge stones; I can’t promise you forever, I’m flesh and bones. Loving can be short, Neruda said, and forgetting, so long. Only proceed if you know you’re strong. For us mortals the impossible seems easy; we become dreamy…