Author: lmcraeb

Boundless. I ran away because I got weary of not seeing horizons. Everything lasts for a moment. We spent all day on the beach building a castle that wouldn’t last knowing that by the time darkness fell, it would be gone our beautiful work taken from us, our joy, and pride, and pleasure, disappeared. But…

Hollow footsteps echoed off tile apartment floors then bounced, like a radar, in the direction of the bathroom. Somewhere between me and the silence a voice shouted to tell me who I’d find inside. __             “There was a point,” he said, hanging on to the disbelief that he had ever felt this way, “where…

When I was a child, I wanted to be a marine biologist. I didn’t know the ins and outs of the job, or what it entailed but I knew that I loved the ocean and that sharks and dolphins fascinated me. During my first encounter with career choices, the second-grade career puppet show, it came…

“Why don’t you let yourself feel good?” she asked, lying next to me, her fingers in my hair. The attention on me, on everything I was and wasn’t felt like some far off light through the window. I laid in silence with the city glowing over us before answering, “I don’t know.” I did know….

Beyond hazel reflections I see a plunge into a pile of charred red and rusted orange the smile contagious, a laughter without bounds, an innocence of learning and wanting to share then shamed and dampened covered in dirt by those trying to bury their own stories arms and legs left bound beneath fallen branches roots…

Something shifted in the way she spoke, making it seem as if she were choosing each word before putting it in the space before us. She was stepping on autumn leaves and crunching every uncertainty that I had laid bare.