First Deaths
The first time you watch someone die is a surprise because wasn’t death supposed to be silent?
Death
Rebirth Feels A Lot Like Near-Death
I lost all my Instagram Drafts, at least 15 Drafts in stages of completion. Gone in one shot.
Death In A Paper World – A Cremation, A Trip, Lots of People
This month began with news of the death of one of my close relatives. A few minutes before midnight, he was found at his computer, hand still on the mouse, the light and life gone from his eyes.
If I Were To Speak At Mark Salling’s Funeral
Glee actor Mark Salling was found dead a few hours earlier. There have been a slew of ‘He deserved it’ messages online.
A Pizza Slice Of Kindness
How can any one of us possibly measure what pain means to another? Who can truly determine which problems are bigger than others?
Read This At My Funeral
I would like this read after I die if there is anybody to listen. A life was changedMany things were brokenListsRulesExpectationsDreamsRelationshipsStatus quo Many languages spokenAnd learntAnd builtWith grammarsThat bore plurals for things that hadn’t beforeRealitiesLovesBodiesStates of being And in endingYet another rule brokenAnother grammar rebuiltWhen I sayLife is endingBut I…
The Goodbye Warrior
I started this year facing up to something I have feared all my life – the word GOODBYE.
Tiny Tales: Luka
I wrote this for an Alphabet Sambar prompt. It’s dark per my usual but with a tighter rein on craft. It’s called LUKA.
F is for Fear Economy (Feardom)
Feardom is a world of ghouls, monsters-under-the-bed, aliens & otherworld creatures. They manage freshly dead souls’ passage into Feardom or wherever else they may be bound, with all the expected errors, goof-ups and emergencies. They also run a fear economy, collecting, creating, processing and distributing fear across the living world.
MayShortReads18: Sleep
Trigger warnings: Death, Abuse