Kitchen

My eyes blink against the darkness, waiting for a sliver of light to fill the void, though it wouldn’t be a sliver, it would be a slight glowing coming from behind my head. A doorway existed there, a doorway waiting for me to cross the threshold, and as I await my destiny, I blink against the darkness, struggling to comprehend just what I’m waiting for. Sleep tugs at me, but I keep it at bay as I blink against darkness, each moment building upon that black sky of this bedroom

It was night, the time where the cats came out and began to yowl on some poor man’s fence. The thing, maybe a soft golden color with...

The flowers were prettier that day than they had been all season; a crisp sea of blues, purples, reds, and white stared up at Josephine,...

Sun no longer wake. Waiting long time. Don’t know long, just know it been long time. Scared. Sun keep come then go then come then go. Me...

Face scrunched in anger, he clenched his fists and turned the other way. Frankie’s legs carried him away from his crying mother — crying...

The angels guide me through a narrow doorway. I’m wearing a smile. My teeth are showing. I cannot remember the last time I brushed them,...

It was a Monday — at least, that’s what it said on the dry erase board. The humans called the large, white, plastic thing at the front of...

Darkness was all I’d ever known. It was all I was. There was not an ounce of me that wasn’t consumed by it. Every day was night. It...

A man held his wallet in one hand. He gazed upon all of us. His eyes scanned the shelves of us, right here at the counter. We were...