What I Needed to Say v.3

Courage

Her silky sweet eyes
consume my conscious
and there is nothing else

--laugHing
------Eating
---- dRinking

----slEeping
--plaYing
----rEading
-----Sitting

as my courage grows
the distance between us shrinks

twenty------------------------------feet
----------ten----------------------- feet
------------------six----------------feet
--------------------------three----- feet

anxiety pulses through my veins as my
brain ignites and dissolves to a soupy liquid
stomach rolls off a cliff and gravity sends it plummeting
legs that brought me here crumble beneath me

my body shuts down until
all I can do is look into
her silky sweet eyes

and say those
three little words
I had been meaning to say all along

What’s your name?

55 Word Short-Story v.3

The Carnivore
The blade hacks through muscles, tendons, even bones with sickening precision. With each deft swipe, flesh is torn from flesh, until all that’s left is a barren carcass. He picks up a tiny morsel, turns it over in his calloused hands, and pops it into his mouth. He savors every second before yelling, “Dinner’s ready!”

What I needed to say V.2

Her silky sweet eyes
consume my conscious
and there is nothing else

--laugHing
-------Eating
---- dRinking

----slEeping
--plaYing
----rEading
-----Sitting

I know I have to do it

synapses fire
muscles twitch
legs move

and the distance between us shrinks

twenty------------------------------feet
----------ten----------------------- feet
------------------six----------------feet
--------------------------three----- feet

brain ignites and dissolves to a soupy liquid
stomach rolls off a cliff and begins free fall
legs that brought me here threaten to collapse

Just do it.

I open my mouth and those
three little words
carve the silence

What’s your name?

What if? V.3

That incredibly familiar yet
intensely satisfying smell
inundates my nostrils

The smell of hope and expectation, of
goals and glory, of
passion and promise, of
Spring

And of baseball.

It’s the game that I love, the same
rugged brown dirt that tears knees to a pulp, the same
plush green grass that makes mothers cringe with every dive, the same
sunflower seeds that flutter gracefully to the earth between every pitch, the same
pleasure

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBut something’s different
aaaA new
aaaaaaaaafieldaaaaaaaa coach aaaaaaaaaaaaaaateam
chance

One chance.

Now I’m a policeman
patrolling centerfield
trying to catch a five-ounce needle
in a thousand square foot haystack

I’ve done this before, but the
pressure…

CRACK!

A tiny missile soars through the perfectly blue sky
trying to land gently in that great mass of green
and I’m the only one who can intercept it

But it’s too far…

I leap
eyes focus
muscles strain
tendons stretch

Leather greets leather and the ball
drops