She Who Has Many Legs is still looking at the warrior, waiting. Long ago she may have made the first move, a swift one that may have ended a fight nobody had even seen start. But now she’s old and has grown lazy and quite afraid, so she just lies in waiting, not knowing exactly…Continue Reading “A Spider”
He’s in it for the money, though he’ll probably never say that outloud. Not even in front of the others, the ones that started out their little group: by now, he’s sure some of them believe. Which is, in his not at all humble opinion, a huge irony. Life’s funny like that sometimes. But even…Continue Reading “Dark Times Ahead: The Man Speaks”
Once again, he was lost. Somewhere far away from there, from her. He was howling and crying, but it wasn’t her Simon, it wasn’t her son. It was the other one, the Miracle, the one they had grown to love while her little boy was dying slowly. Figuratively. There was nothing figurative about it now….Continue Reading “Miracles”