RECORDING MOMENTS IN TIME

We hustled homeward, empty-handed, while avoiding obstacles along the trail. Approaching notice a small group has gathered, applauding?...

We follow our semi-cleared pathway north toward several buildings, maybe a mile away, that appeared occupied. An occasional puff of smoke...

Three days of backbreaking work clearing a path wide enough to squeeze a wagon through freely. Fortunately, we recruited several others...

Sunrise the next morning. I find Brett inspecting the wagon. As the sun rises, the weather is clear for the moment. Everyone prepares...

My plan, hide. Stay in my cubical. Get to the kitchen early, get my job done, never making eye contact, ignore everyone, then back to my...

I’ve heard about these teams, men and women sent out to steal anything not nailed down by any means necessary. Once outside the fence you...

On the roof, bent over, head throbbing, abdomen aching as if someone had slugged my mid-section repeatedly, with his final likeness...

Heart racing as a single shot echoed in my ears, I walked straight out the door, carefully stepping over the body, having never pulled...

As weeks dribble by a few, usually unattached males, in various stages of rags, line up, all in need of what we have. What we will share...

The value of life measurable, acknowledged but never spoken, hidden, sad to say. Human capital, tangible, today a laborer is alive, a...

Awaken by the warmth of the sun, no rain, cool for now. I could hear movement nearby and felt the whispers. I laid quietly, eyes closed,...

“She’s coming with me,” he insisted. Emily breaks away, stumbling to the ground in disarray, still pleading between sobs. Blood oozing...

‘Tis a chilly night, absolutely! Sun now slipping behind our mountain range. We live in the rain shadow, supposedly that patch of land...

There appears for now enough talent and muscle on site. Men and women prepared to engage their specialized skills in the establishment of...

As a community, or for now a collective, we occupy a space we call home. Why we ended up at this venue, I know not. Seems we were all...

We are apparently an uncaring tenant. Some likely would disagree. Of course, there are always those eternal optimists. Those believing...

They warned us. Again and again and again. But here we are, living on a planet in distress. It’s like aging. I pass a mirror and wonder,...