I wrote this for an anthology this website was doing called Love and Semi-colon. It has to deal with the loss of a friend to suicide. It's not exactly a story, not exactly a poem. Someone called it flash fiction. It's something I've been trying to write since he passed. September is Suicide Awareness month. Please...remember that help is out there.

I hate my life. It's a thought that passes Ella's mind nearly every second of everyday. Stuck in a loveless marriage to a man who prefers video games to Ella's company, she struggles to find happiness.Until an old friend finds her on social media and suddenly Stella sees all the things she wanted out of life but never got.

Suffering from a broken heart and betrayal, Leah leaves her life and takesup residence in the small seaside community of Capeside, Oregon. She lives her life in peace until the arrival of her new neighbor shakes up life as she once knew it.

After finding herself suddenly single, Ivy meets Jude - a Marine on leave in Seattle who's about to ship off to Iraq. Can their relationship last through a deployment and all that comes with it?

A successful painter living in Seattle, Cameron places a request through a modeling agency, Meg is sent to his studio to sit for his newest painting. After a series of trysts, the affair is discovered