Short Story Library

It was 24 minutes before midnight
when I cried into the lonesome river of lost hope
and shivered tearless once again,
fearless in a daze I quiver alone
wondering if she will ever hear this,
as the murky water wells slowly upward,
and compels me to shutter
with petrified words I dare not utter,
another summer in hell,
silent sentences and confessions of repentance,
confusions [...]

The clouds clung to the horizon
like raindrops dancing with the distant Pacific,
as if hung from the sun by an invisible string.
Significant but nothing more than residual remnants from a miserable tropical depression,
Now deceased and forlorn like the deepening shades of indifferent colors
fluttering upon the receding currents like demented butterflies upon the surface of the water,
wondering [...]