Functioning Addict

Matty was an addict, no question about it.  She was a high functioning addict who self medicated using a combination of street drugs as is often the norm among those living on the edge.  She avoided being homeless by qualifying for public assistance due to a brain injury.  She had other problems too, like the… Continue reading Functioning Addict

The Town

It was another nice day, so she decided to take a walk through town.  She liked to go past the many familiar shops and stores that made up the short three blocks of the small town.  She said hello to many people.  She knew almost everyone by sight at least. Lorenzo, an old man half… Continue reading The Town

Purple Princess

Seventeen miles up the coast around the bend overlooking the great Pacific Ocean… nestled in between the Brussels sprouts and artichoke fields lay Mother Beck’s compound.  Mother Beck wore her thick grey hair in a long braid down her back.  She was a former nurse who had planned well for her family’s future.  When three… Continue reading Purple Princess

Loni

How could she ever trust him?  He had molested her, her mother, and all her female aunts and cousins.  Now her own young children were under his gaze as he watched them play. He was quite old now sitting in a wheel chair near the children’s play ground where he could dream and fantasize.  Bastard!… Continue reading Loni