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Tag Archives: Human Condition

Two Cold Fish Let the Chips Fall Where They May

“Sheesh, Suzette’s been strutting around with a chip on her shoulder today!”
“You’re telling me! Acting like a big fish in a small pond lately.”

Posted byAly Writes3rd Oct 20211st Nov 2021Posted inFlash Fiction, HumorTags:Flash, Funny, Human Condition, ProseLeave a comment on Two Cold Fish Let the Chips Fall Where They May

Insomnia Inspires

In haze between tomorrow and today
When midnight’s passed but morning not quite here
Strange thoughts arrive to find me in the dark
Drifting dreams and imaginings unclear

Posted byAly Writes22nd Sep 202122nd Sep 2021Posted inPoetryTags:Dysfunctional, Human Condition, Poetry, RelatableLeave a comment on Insomnia Inspires

What’s Important to You?

It’s about priorities. Make a conscious decision to spend your time on what is important to you.

Posted byAly Writes8th Sep 202112th Aug 2022Posted inWriting TipsTags:Dysfunctional, Favourite Things, Human Condition, Prose, Therapy, Writing TipsLeave a comment on What’s Important to You?

While Some Throw Rocks at the Object of Their Fear

At her touch the raspy scales constricted and coiled, tensed into an anxious lowercase e.

Posted byAly Writes23rd Aug 202123rd Aug 2021Posted inMicro Fiction, ProseTags:Dysfunctional, Human Condition, ProseLeave a comment on While Some Throw Rocks at the Object of Their Fear

The Heart Makes a Poor Compass

Somewhere in the dusk a bird begins its goodnight song, the tune more mournful now, more wistful now. What does he know?

Posted byAly Writes13th Aug 202113th Aug 2021Posted inFlash Fiction, Micro Fiction, ProseTags:Flash, Human Condition, Prose, Romance1 Comment on The Heart Makes a Poor Compass

Happiness

But then in time
Too soon it’s easy to forget
What it was like when she was gone,
What you were like without her there.

Posted byAly Writes29th Jun 202129th Jun 2021Posted inPoetryTags:Anxiety, Dysfunctional, Human Condition, Poetry, Quarantine, Therapy1 Comment on Happiness

The Molted Skin of Childhood

Old bridge across the Saugeen River at Krug Memorial Park in Chesley

He had gone away years before. Away, as in not there, not where Miranda was, not around when she needed him—or someone, anyone—to be in her corner.

Posted byAly Writes19th Mar 202119th Mar 2021Posted inFlash Fiction, ProseTags:Dysfunctional, Family, Flash, Human Condition, Prose, Running AwayLeave a comment on The Molted Skin of Childhood

Buried Alive

She feels it beating at its cage like desperate fists pounding inside a coffin that’s been closed too soon, buried too soon.

Posted byAly Writes23rd Feb 202123rd Feb 2021Posted inMicro Fiction, Prose, TravelTags:Anxiety, Current Events, Human Condition, Prose, TravelLeave a comment on Buried Alive

Someone Else’s Window

Outside someone else’s window the neighbour’s wife
. . .

Posted byAly Writes1st Jan 20211st Jan 2021Posted inBolivia, Humor, PoetryTags:Bolivia, Funny, Human Condition, Photography, PoetryLeave a comment on Someone Else’s Window

To Escape the Lurking Darkness

I whisper my confessions to the lake that holds my secrets.

Posted byAly Writes13th Dec 202013th Dec 2020Posted inProseTags:Anxiety, Human Condition, Photography, Prose, TherapyLeave a comment on To Escape the Lurking Darkness

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