I know she had good reasons to dump me. I wasn't exactly the best husband.

She told me she was "Tired of your running away" and "No more abusive behaviour".

She was everything to me and together we had fought the System for so long.

I guess between my horrid behaviour and the pressure from outside our marriage, she finally reached her limit.

I can admit now, all these years later, that it was th...

When I look in the mirror I see a beautiful dark haired girl. She has brown eyes and long brown hair.

I know this isn't right, because I look like my parents and the others in my clan.

We are horned with glowing eyes and the look of fierce warriors.

Yet, deep inside, I long to be that girl in the reflection.

Beautiful, normal, sweet and innocent.

I turn away from the mirror - that false self. ...

The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro.

In this streaming rushing maelstrom that is life

Do each of us not also know?

The waters call me downwards down to sink beneath the wave

But oh the thing that is life

Always comes to save.

The waters swirl and eddy from a single source of sea

In the rushing tide beside beside

The river bank a hill a tree.

Together let us go

Let us be bra...

He was going home at last. After those many years tryiing to forget, he realized that the only peace he'd ever find was there. Home. As he trudged along the uneven path, the stones daring him to lose his balance, he wondered if She would be there still. Would she be glad to see him? Would she even remember him?

Her golden hair and bright smile! Oh he remembered her alright.

Why had he left all th...

In fact, just because you've never seen one is partial proof that dragons do exist.

How so? you ask.

It's due to the incredible abilities dragons possess as well as their shyness.

Dragons are shy? you ask.

Indeed they are. So shy that in the years of searching, I was only successful when I hit upon a fragrant trap to entice my prey....

It was late when my rental car broke down in the middle of Italian wine country. I had no cell reception. I thought that only happened in bad horror movies.

I left the little blue car, and started walking. I was thankful that I'd worn my sneakers instead of high heels.

When I reached a lane branching off the main road, I followed it and at last came to a house and outbuildings. The house was low...