Tag: writing sample
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I wonder at the sea.
Sometimes, I stare at the sea and I wonder. I wonder how the stars look from just below the surface. I wonder whether the sea can feel sad. The sea will never kiss the stars, no matter how much their light is reflected in its skin. The sea knows the…
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A Consuming Passion
His love was all-consuming, a deep abyss that pulled her towards a pinprick of passion that she had held subdued for all these years. And as he tasted her skin, the scent of her own desire driving him senselessly onward, pounding and unrelenting, she felt a possession of herself, an…
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A Curiously Rare Phenomenon, Love Is
She lounged heavily against the wicker, fine legs draped lazily across one another, a glass of ice precariously forgotten in one hand while her opposite elbow rested artfully on the arm of her chair. Ash fell to the coppery stones beneath her as she flicked the carefully rolled paper between…
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It Watches In The Night
She sat, frail and exhausted in the darkened room. The fireplace called to her, it’s dank hearth frowning at her backside. She wouldn’t even risk a single, glowing ember – she couldn’t. Not with the lingering shadow that perched mere yards from her frosted window, undaunted by the snow and…
VICKI SWEETS 