Stories tagged with "loneliness"

  • Living Beauty Inspired by a photo

    Geisha is a word that can mean many things, so many things. It is a two-part word. The first part, gei, means “art.” The se…

  • Another Night

    Sigh

    ‘Another night watching movies by myself’ thought Jan as she pressed the start button on her microwave. She walked ou…

  • The Marauders of Tennesee Road (NaNoWriMo)

    No one had seen or heard from John Marshall in close to ten years. Most assumed he had arrived safely in Montgomery, but with…

  • When Happiness Walks Out

    Faith touches too few, and Sadness sits by too many.

    Blank expression, there’s a man in the corner who’s met Desperation on …

  • Tough to be "You": A Promise to Myself

    It’s tough to be “you”
    when everyone around you is “them”—

    you’re different
    you’d gladly walk in public wearing pajamas…

  • At the airport Inspired by a photo

    Loneliness struck, a loud, clear bell which echoed throughout his being. Every iota present reverberated with it and he felt …

  • alone Inspired by a photo

    Alone in the eerie fog blind to all around me I wonder where I went wrong.
    To love to be loved.
    Though unbeknownst to me evil…

  • Waiting to hear Inspired by text

    Time had passed. and unlike so many cliches and fortune cookie sayings, it had not passed quickly.
    The memory of him gazing …