She found his letters in a black chest in the attic, the morning after his funeral. Her eldest told her to be careful, but as soon as she found out her husband had left her something, no rickety stairs or cobwebs could deter her. She sat cross-legged in front of the chest and unlocked it….
Creative Writing
It was your footsteps on the stairs that did it.
The sun rises, early morning light in the attic— that’s not what wakes me— it was your footsteps on the stairs that did it. It was the steady hum of conversation— it was nosy intrigue — the desire to listen in. I was awake, and pretending I was asleep. I was naive to think that…
Travel
The origins of the bucket list
What makes you get up in the morning when you know the end is near? This very question looms over Rob Reiner’s 2007 film The Bucket List. Set in the present-day United States, Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) are two men diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, who meet in the hospital…
Creative Writing
Haiku’s on A Winter Morning
Children with eyes wide, Exhale their warm breath slowly To watch the air dance. – Misty clouds of air Evaporate around me, And trouble my mind. – The frostbitten grass, waits timelessly, in the cold, hopeful for the sun. Like Concrete on Facebook to stay up to date
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