by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorised
There might be hundreds of episodes of the Twilight Zone, but every year I see only one. I don’t know why. It finds me. Inevitably, I find myself sitting down, perusing the channels, and like a dark vortex that I wander around until I eventually fall in, I watch...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorised
Snow. So strange for there to be snow. Lily’s foot crunched lightly into the colorless powder. Lily looked over her shoulder to confirm the mystery of snow in the summer. Behind her, a lush green meadow with sunbeams and blue skies. In front of her, the snowy...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorised
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start” – Shel Silverstein The Raven – I saw him first. A loud clank on top of a metal roof. Clumsy and heavy. Usually the birds are much...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2021 | Uncategorised
Her stomach grumbled mightily. And she licked her lips. “Oh how rude of me,” the crow looked at the amber colored apple, “would you like one of these delicious apples for yourself?” “Yes please,” she anxiously shifted so her hand...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Jan 19, 2021 | Uncategorised
Walking along the edge of the wall, Lily spotted three figures waiting underneath a sign by the edge of a river. Cryptically, the sign just had a single word rewritten on it. Simply, the sign just said, “To”. “To where?” She wondered. Two of...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorised
As she looked on at the stone wall cutting across the yellow wheat field, a distant memory rose to the surface of Lily’s mind Her mom was crouched infront of a young Lily holding her hands and looking intently into her eyes. She clasped Lily’s young hands...
