The day we shut the door on a world gone mad, my mother was eight months pregnant with my brother Luca. Thirty years later, both our parents are gone. Our father left the bunker one day, never to return, our mother fell ill nine months ago and died. We have no idea what to expect or what we will find once we leave the bunker.I have vivid memories of the world, before we went underground, although I was barely five years old at the time. My brother, on the other hand, knows only the bunker. He’s never seen a cloud, the ocean, or walked barefoot in the sand. He’s never felt the wind caress his face.
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CHIMERA -CHAPTER I
What delineates good people from bad people? It is not always clear who is the aggressor and who is the victim.
Water and Blood
10 MIN READ: Historically, the romantic basis of marriage has been regarded with ambivalence, although it offered the promise of happiness and personal fulfillment, these were generally considered imprudent. This is the story of a child bride in Canada’s prairies, post WWII
LIVING WITH THE DEAD
12 MIN READ: “Purgatory is not meant to be easy Lucy, it’s a place where we pay for our sins, in order to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the gates of heaven and that can take years.
“That is a long time.” Lucy tries to imagine what years must feel like.
“Your uncle Fabio he was a good man, bless his soul, but he was no angel either, he could use a little extra help, men are weak when it comes to sins of the flesh, the flesh is weak. One day, when you‘re a woman Lucy, you’ll understand. Lucy makes a mental note to not commit any sins of the flesh.
LAVATORIUM
A short story inspired by the years spent working in Corporate settings. A comical look at the gap and contrast between the privileged and those less so.
Words Have Power 