Pillar's Power_The walk_Always Listen to Alice_Drinks All Around
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Pillar's Power
By the time I steppewww.onedoor.ccd outside, the leaves were on fire! Pillar just stood there, in total shock while I ran to get the water hose to try to put the blaze out. She kept staring at her hands murmuring to herself “What happened? What did I just do?”. Thankfully, one of my neighbors, Patrice, who was also outside walking her dog saw the fire and immediately called the fire department. Within minutes, firefighters arrived on the scene and hosed down the tree in our front yard. I explained to them that I didn’t know exactly how the fire got started...that maybe it was due to it being so hot outside ...
The walk
By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. I let out a little silent cry to flush out the night’s dream. The sting of the dream lingered though. I walked with an uncertain gait. Well, it's been some time since I let myself ‘out’. The pavement was crowded for an early morning. The world, of course, was out there to get me! How else can it be? What other life-or-death matters do people have in their hands to not devour and laugh at my demons? I mustered more courage with each step and began to ruminate on the night’s dream. It’s been 10 years since the relationship ended. It’s weird...
Always Listen to Alice
It was time. Ember knew that it was time. It was the night of the fortieth anniversary when she had dug up the time capsule left for her. It was her turn to repeat the tradition.It was time for her to gather up the things that she wanted her great-granddaughter to remember her by. Time to put together the little pieces of history that would help the girl learn who her family had been, where they had come from, how they had loved her before she had even been born.The first thing into the capsule was a little doll that her mother had gotten her from a craft fair one day, hand made in what was no...
Drinks All Around
They sat in the new coffee shop sipping at the mystery autumn drink that had come out this morning. Laughter came from the table as one of the women told about a prank that she had played on her loving husband. The women had always met at the different shops while their children were in after school activities, it was either meet once a week to enjoy each other’s company or to sit in the car to fall promptly asleep.The contest that was running at the coffee shop was to guess what the flavor of the mystery coffee was and the ideas were coming fast from the women as they took a sip of their flav...