Monthly Archives: October 2011

276/365 – THE PAST IN THE BLINK OF ANY EYE

Posted on October 5, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 388 There’s a man who lives in the corner of my eye though I can’t see him clearly. He’s more like the blur of a tear. I think I know who he is; a man I loved some … Continue reading →

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275/365 – CRYING

Posted on October 3, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 258 I remember I cried when my uncle took us fishing out in the stream through the woods. He joked that we were lost. I was terrified and howled. He didn’t know I would believe him so completely. … Continue reading →

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274/365 – SAYING YES

Posted on October 3, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 288 I said yes because I was thirty years old and alone in the city. I said yes because he was the first real man that I’d known. Because at thirty you think your life is already half … Continue reading →

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273/365 – THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUV

Posted on October 3, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 375 He was a stranger, a man in a black SUV that just happened to stop adjacent to me at the stop light. He was just past his prime, or what he’d consider it to be, with a … Continue reading →

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272/365 – REINCARNATION

Posted on October 2, 2011 by susan

Word Count: 270 In a past life I was a sugar maple tree. Men with metal cut into my skin. My sap flowed like blood at their touch. My children were seeded with the wind until I grew old and … Continue reading →

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