Author Archives: goddesswest

When I awoke, the sun was streaming in and I knew I’d slept later than usual. Jumped into the shower, went into the kitchen, and got the coffee started. I was almost out, but had enough for a couple more days.I noticed the clock on the stove- 9:33. Wow! I hadn’t slept this late inContinue reading “Morning After [6]”

I set the rock back on the counter and tiptoed to the door to peek through the peephole. I didn’t really want to speak to anybody after the day I’d had.It was two guys wearing white shirts, black pants, and sappy fake smiles. Hard pass.I tiptoed away from the door and into the kitchen. TheContinue reading “Visitors [5]”

It didn’t take too long to get home.People in town were driving like maniacs. Nobody was obeying traffic signals or even making sense on the road in general. There were overclocking engines and crashing noises coming from the intersection between me and the back road home as I left the store parking lot, so IContinue reading “Back Home [4]”

It started about when I got to the pasta aisle. I mean, I started really noticing things about then. I was holding a box of farfalles and looking at the rotinis, trying to make up my mind. There was a couple down at the other end of the aisle. The woman was taking a jarContinue reading “The Pasta Aisle [2]”

I thought about that lion a lot, in the following days. I mean, lioness. I mean, of course it wasn’t REALLY a lion. I may have been in shock and more than a little beyond the ability to reason clearly, but even in my addled state, it was clearly not a lion. Not a regularContinue reading “Checking Out [3]”