It’s like honey. One of the sweetest delights of being human is waking with laughter on your lips. For me, it’s a rare occurrence. My dreams are often motivated with an ominous threat—of being found, being discovered, being betrayed. Fuel…
June 23, 2023
For the last three years, two large tree stumps have stood in my yard, awaiting reinvention. G saw them on the side of the road one day and somehow managed to heave them into our car. I can’t remember how…
June 18, 2023
I pray more than anything she never listens to those who “hush” her.
June 12, 2023
truth, lost to the noise more can be said without words listen, observe, breathe © 2023 Samantha Burgett Photos: my images
June 10, 2023
I'm writing my first medieval fantasy novel and documenting my progress here on the blog. This is my sixth update in the series.
June 7, 2023
A season of change. Spring has nudged me over the edge from a stage of busy rest to focused work. Busy rest—do you know the kind I mean? When you give yourself time to unwind and recharge and relax and…
June 2, 2023
“Fuckin’ hells.” Goyd pulled the skin apart and inspected the red, raw crevice between thumb and forefinger. The cut was deep. Clean, but dangerously close to riddling his right hand useless. There had been a feeling in his belly. Don’t…
May 31, 2023
Do you ever think of me, and what could have been beneath the magnolia tree? If you had lingered longer and dared knelt beside me? I would have held you, and let you wrap my hair round your fingers. Simple…
May 29, 2023
Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of enjoying sunlight late into the night. Up here in Michigan, that’s how you know the long winter is truly over; the evenings are brighter, the air softer and warmer. As the dusk light…
May 24, 2023
There was a time, a school trip in fifth grade, somewhere deep in the woods of the Ohio countryside A time of freedom unbridled expansion permission to wander my first taste of isolation I found myself in a room mid-construction…
May 15, 2023
I drift and I dream and conjure fond memories of pink and sweet pine A little bit about life: From blowing a tire on a busy construction-impaired highway to celebrating four close family member birthdays, the past few weeks has…
May 14, 2023