Tag: family
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Poem – A Mother’s Promise
Happy birthday, little one Welcome to the world May your days be as happy as can be May you never feel a single heart break May you always look into mirrors with flattering lighting May every camera take your picture at the right angle May you never know the pains of skinned knees or harsh…
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Flash Fiction- Seeing Yourself In Your Children
Seeing Yourself In Your Children Samantha and her kids sat in an impromptu circle in the backyard discussing deep topics on life. It started out as a simple question of if they thought God really existed and then expanded. “What if we are already in the afterlife?” her 11 year old son asked. “But is…
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Flash Fiction – Feeding Family
Feeding Family Everyday Ester and Bill would sit at the same bench in the park and feed the birds. Once Bill passed on, Ester found it hard to keep going. They never had children during their 50 years of marriage and in a way she had begun to feel like the birds were her family.…
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Flash Fiction – Teach Them
As children grow, they watch their parents and try to emulate them. Whether it be how they dress or talk. Maybe even the way they chose to live their lives. Melissa firmly believed that her daughter would know everything she needed to know. Being a single mother wasn’t easy, but she managed to teach her…
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Short Story – Nighttime Adventure
“Wake up…” my father whispered as he gently tapped me on the shoulder, “It is time.” I rolled out of bed and rubbed the sleep from my tired eyes. My father had already left the room and I could hear his footsteps going down the stairs. I put on my slippers and hurried to catch…
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Flash Fiction – What Is Mom Hiding?
Brothers, Timothy and William, had seen out their window their mother bury a box in the back yard last night. Now that she had gone to work on the other side of town, it was time for some digging. The ground was hard from last night’s deep freeze but they were both determined to see…
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Poem: The Bigger the Better
At the beginning there was only one Where dreams were big and songs were sung When you came it became two Where love blossomed and it grew First baby boy made us three With sleepless nights and a new body Another boy came to make us four Toddler and newborn who could ask for more…
Writing In The Deep 