Chapter 3 I stared into the mirror at my newly shaven head. It looked odd and felt weird to the touch. Tommy, Claude, and Butch all stood beside me light reflecting off the shiny new domes as well. Seven games into my first season and we were still undefeated. I had been told that since the schools opening they had never had a record like that. People were beginning to talk state. The guys decided that to insure our streak we should sacrifice a part of ourselves. Our hair was the proverbial ...

Chapter 3 I stared into the mirror at my newly shaven head. It looked odd and felt weird to the touch. Tommy, Claude, and Butch all stood beside me light reflecting off the shiny new domes as well. Seven games into my first season and we were still undefeated. I had been told that since the schools opening they had never had a record like that. People were beginning to talk state. The guys decided that to insure our streak we should sacrifice a part of ourselves. Our hair was the proverbial ...

Chapter 3 I stared into the mirror at my newly shaven head. It looked odd and felt weird to the touch. Tommy, Claude, and Butch all stood beside me light reflecting off the shiny new domes as well. Seven games into my first season and we were still undefeated. I had been told that since the schools opening they had never had a record like that. People were beginning to talk state. The guys decided that to insure our streak we should sacrifice a part of ourselves. Our hair was the proverbial ...

Chapter 3 I stared into the mirror at my newly shaven head. It looked odd and felt weird to the touch. Tommy, Claude, and Butch all stood beside me light reflecting off the shiny new domes as well. Seven games into my first season and we were still undefeated. I had been told that since the schools opening they had never had a record like that. People were beginning to talk state. The guys decided that to insure our streak we should sacrifice a part of ourselves. Our hair was the proverbial ...

Chapter 3 I stared into the mirror at my newly shaven head. It looked odd and felt weird to the touch. Tommy, Claude, and Butch all stood beside me light reflecting off the shiny new domes as well. Seven games into my first season and we were still undefeated. I had been told that since the schools opening they had never had a record like that. People were beginning to talk state. The guys decided that to insure our streak we should sacrifice a part of ourselves. Our hair was the proverbial ...

Chapter 2 It was Friday; the smell of fresh cut grass was thick in the air. The seats were packed with fans screaming our team song. We walked as gods here in this little town. We were what everyone dreamt of. Every guy wanted to be us and every girl wanted to have us, we were the Barracuda’s. Our first and second games were blowouts. Undefeated at this point we stared across the field at our rival team as they took their places. Tommy, a fellow Crypt and the teams quarterback, patted me on ...

Chapter one I stared into her emerald like eyes as I held her tiny three-foot frame, her hair like black velvet, caressing my arms. She was five and in her eyes I could see a wisdom not usually born in one so young, wisdom that in part, I had given her. The knowledge of ones own death, a universal feeling transcending all aspects of life, even age. In those eyes I could tell she knew that she was dying. “Where is my daddy?” She asked, little flecks of blood drying at the corners of her mouth....

It was nine-thirty at night and the wind had picked up a little causing leaves to gently flow along the cool pavement. She stood in the doorway of her apartment building waiting for her friend, David; he would be there any minute. Like clockwork every Friday night the two of them would go for a night out on the town. They would stay out till about two or three in the morning then he would drop her off, she would hug him, kiss his cheek, then, as he had a thousand times before, he would leave....

I cry yet no tear falls. It’s a pain I can’t ignore yet I can not recognize it either. She knew my name once and now I’m just a veiled memory that, with time, is threatened to be wiped away. I once was held in your heart, I held you on a pedestal of gold. I thought it was gold, until it tarnished that sick chicken shit green color of the minerals impurity. I bought you a piece of the universe because the world was beyond my grasp; I lifted you to the heavens and helped the moon wrap you warml...

‘Looking to the sky’ Sorrow, an empty well which calls longingly to me. What can I do but heed it? I’ve lost too much to hold high my tear streaked chin. I have fought all my life to come to this unsteady ground I now stand upon. What else can there be for me to do? I have bled, cried, sweat, given and taken all I can. Why must I still carry on in this world that constantly forces my head through its pane glass window? ‘looking down at my feet’ To go on? Is that my reason for being here? Just...