The ocean mist landed gently on my skin as I walked through a wasteland of rubbish alone; hazy orange street lights tinted the bricks walls of the back alley. The whole area was a dirty and had the pungent acidic smell of beer and urine. As I walked past a pile of old VHS tapes I noticed a small, religious children's book laying face up and open ( Read more... )

Where do you begin when you're telling a story about something that never happened? Cut to the chase, revel the punch line, and expose the lesson? What if the lesson isn't what it's supposed to be and the good guy doesn't win? What if the moral to the story left you in a lonlier world? Would you still want to hear the story ( Read more... )

I have a story to write, it's about the greatest love story that never happened. About the ending of a chapter of life that you  never began reading. I have a story about someone losing something they never got their hands but could always hold it close. I know a good story that's the most tragic love story that has never been told.