Tears streamed down Natalie’s face as she sat in her car, feeling like she’d been punched in the gut. When her primary care doctor referred her to a specialist, she figured it was to rule things out. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect the unbearab...
Neither of us spoke at first; I was too stunned, and she too ashamed. Finally, I asked in a raspy voice, “Why?” Her gaze remained steadfastly away from mine. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Luke. I… He was dying. And I was so… the depression, it was crushing me...
We met Walt the day we were moving into our new home. We’d finally saved enough to buy a place on five wooded acres outside of the town of Salida, Colorado, up into the hills a little way off Highway 50, which eventually crosses Monarch Pass. It wasn’t a...
Lucy Andrews was in a bind. She had been given an assignment to go to a conference up in Sacramento to try and get the state government to release some money for a project her company was working on. Ordinarily, she wouldn't have minded the hour and a ha...
It has been a long and tiring week Since she heard the heartbreaking news Which made her teenage nightmare Come to life in the here and now. Her thoughts and emotions Shroud in darkness As fear tries it best to claim her Making her its unwilling fatal...
Looking at the blank page in front of her She realizes that she could fill it a million times over With all her thoughts and emotions Currently running through her veins. But what is it that she feels she really needs to say Is it thank you for the all...
You know that I must leave you,The end is surely near,We both knew this day would come,Please don't shed a tear.Life is but a journey,Beginning with our birth,I'd like to think it continues on,After we leave this earth.But I do have one big fear,And it's...
