The Ritual

  Taking a deep breath and a brief pause to rub the bridge of his nose, Damon closed his eyes after staring at the blinking cursor for a full 30 minutes. The bloody thing was merely there to taunt him. Nothing more. The caffeine from the coffee was supposed to give him a boost of…

Shirley’s Soup

Today's Daily Prompt Live to Eat asks, "How far I would travel for the best meal of my life? As the first sentence says, some people eat to live and others live to eat. It really depends on my mood. I, admittedly, do a lot of tasks by how I'm feeling. If I'm deep into…

Four-Legged Family

  My Four Legged Family Day full of friction, Ends with my babies curled close. Wrapped around their paws. © S. Reed   This Haiku was written in response to today's Daily Prompt: Menagerie    No matter how terrible the day has been, these little ones make it all better. They're definitely a big part…

Daily Prompt: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry…

…for tomorrow we die. The world is ending tomorrow! Tell us about your last dinner — the food, your dining companions, the setting, the conversation.     If tomorrow this all came to an end, and I knew it, I would open my eyes from what I did earlier this morning. I would remember the…

Organizing and scary TV programs

I haven't posted in awhile mostly because I'm not really sure of what I want to say. I just have been going through the day to day motions like a somewhat normal human. I have been feeling very creative lately and am working on expanding my idea for the novel I have in order to…