Losing Alaska

An Ode To Life

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  • .22

    Slowly the truck turned from the dirt road onto a narrow-wooded path over hung with willows leading into the woods.  I looked in the back of the beat-up old Ford truck at my dog curled into a ball; the best dog I have ever had, slowly suffering to death from an unknown illness. “I love Read more

  • Watcher

    WATCHER “To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”    Alphonse de Lamartine Chapter 1 Angel I watched you.             I have watched you for twenty-three years and still you are only but a child in my shadow. You are today the same curly Read more

  • A dark house

    A man woke up alone in a dark house, a man woke up alone in a dark house, a man woke up alone in a dark house, day in and day out the man continued to wake up alone in a dark house, a way of life for him that was ideal and safe, a Read more

  • Play God

    Sometimes to play god, you have to play God. Read more

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder Assignment One

    This Assignment is about what happened to my inner four year old. Enjoy! Embers “Where are we going?” “You will see Little One.” “Why are we going there?” “Well Little One it is a place just for you.” The four-year-old girl looked down in deep concentration as if pondering the complexities of reality. “Will you Read more

  • Time

    What is more than another day?Another revolution around our dying star,An endless thrill of microscopic movements compared to that of our Father Time,One more War threat,Endless heart breaks,Events that define the pinnacles of human existence,But mean nothing at all,It will pass,No matter what is happening it will all pass,For one day we all die,But this Read more

  • Glimmers

    I am happiness,I am tiny and nearly obsolete,I can be hard to find but I am not hiding,Some see me in all my glory,They see me when it rains and when it does not,Others,Others are lucky to find me if even just once,They are perpetually chasing a memory or idea of what I should be,I Read more