C. Michele

damned if you do, damned if you don’t. might as well try.

COMING: More in the Seeker Anthology

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COMING: More in the Seeker Anthology -----

Two geese facing one another against a grassy background.
Light shining through pillars at the MET Cloisters in New York.

Over and Out

Tristian and Sabrina have never had to worry about the woods before. It was their escape from the world, a place to get away from it all. Between the divorce, CPS visits, and missed mortgage payments, neither child was ever worried their parents were wondering where they were running off to. Besides, it’s a great place for hide-n-go-seek.

A playful game is suddenly interrupted by an unfamiliar sight: a door in the middle of the woods.

Mind the Door

A routine night shift becomes anything but as two employees find a key that reveals a room that shouldn’t exist.

In the name of floor cleaner, they cross the veil.

Trying to Decide if I should Use my Old Room to Resurrect my Girlfriend. Thoughts?

What would you do to bring the person you love back? Would you deny them death?

The door was open, I saved her. But… what has she become?

The Static Speaks My Name

From childhood, Thomas was told to never leave the TV plugged in before going to bed. It was drilled into him from birth.

Now, 19, he’s in his second semester of college and got his own 32” flatscreen. His mother’s superstition can’t touch him here, right?

David and the Rock

Major David Weiss has been suffering from PTSD for years since his return from Vietnam. After losing his job, his home, and his wife, he’s been confined to a cardboard shelter in an alley. Forgotten.

When his savior arrives and promises hope, it seems too good to be true, and the glint in his eyes gives Major Weiss pause. But that was the old David. Surely, new David can trust a man at his word.

Blurry and dark DJ booth
Permit parking only sign against a blurry background
a double waterfall and river below in northern wisconsin.
An overturned blue wheelbarrow in a forested clearing.
Dark DJ booth from the front with a neon red sign that says "LOVE"
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While fiction has my heart, I do other things too! Explore my poetic prose, raw photographs, favorite recipes, and all else I decide to upload here!

Be on the lookout for more as things get moving.

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A fishing boat off center against a mute sunset