Three Different Ways

Category: Stories

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 8 – The Light of Hope

    Lisa woke up prior to her alarm but well rested. Her Friday morning job was really a Friday early afternoon job and she still had several hours of personal time before she had to be at the store. She sat down with fresh coffee at the table and reviewed the list of meanings, the meanings…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 7 – A Different Light

    Suddenly startled, Lisa opened her eyes and looked around. She was worried that she would sleep through the arrival of her grocery delivery. The sun had set not too long ago. The sky outside was pinkish as if it was stalling the arrival of night. The temperature in the apartment had dropped slightly. She would…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 6 – Sunny Day

    Lisa woke up again at the time of day that she would usually have summoned a fuck about working the restaurant job. Though, if she still it, she would have been late. She looked at the clock, reflected on what her actions would normally be at this time and laughed. Any time before this morning,…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 5 – Judgement Call

    “So how long do you think you’ll be able to keep running? I mean, this is a nice fantasy you’ve built up for yourself, but do you really think that this mystical bullshit is going to stop you from running out of money?” Lisa looked up from the table where the cards from her fancy…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 4 – What Foolishness

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 4 – What Foolishness

    Lisa stood at the table holding the Fool card for several minutes. The card wavered and trembled as nothing else happened. She dropped the card on the table, stared at the two decks of cards, then swept everything off the table and crumpled into the chair. “What the flying fuck am I doing? Talking to…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 3 – Worldview

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 3 – Worldview

    Lisa waited until she had finished her second cup of coffee before opening the package. If it wasn’t for Rebecca’s handwritten cards setting the expectation for how thin twenty-two cards could be, Lisa would have thought that she had been scammed with some stiff cardboard. The outer wrapping was a letter size manila envelope that…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 2 – Reflection

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 2 – Reflection

    Walking back to her apartment from the coffeehouse was twice as frustrating for Lisa as walking from her interview to the coffeehouse in the first place due to the turbulent wind in her face struggling with her boiling emotions for her attention. She was surprised that Rebecca did not say anything about how tangled her…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 1 – Syllabus

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 1 – Syllabus

    “You can put those away now. Halloween was yesterday. Today is Cheap Candy Day. Tomorrow is Christmas.” A brown slouch purse collapsed on the table as the purse bearer slouched into an uncomfortably bare steel chair. Her hands now free of their burden, one sought the pocket of her oversized denim jacket while the other…

  • Sounding The Current – Masterpost

    By popular request (read: the one person who asked), here is the masterpost for the NaNoWriMo 2019 project: “Sounding The Current” chapters. As I update each chapter, this post will be updated in turn. If you do not use an RSS reader, you can check this post for updates. While the draft will always be…

  • Dream Journal: 2016-06-25.01

    “Before the beginning… Before time began… Before… There was the Dream. And in the Dream, was the Dreamer.” This is how my personal mythos begins. Some of the stories, y’all already know. Some not even my most personal of confidants are even aware of. I know it is similar to many well documented examples of…