Sewing Projects

Little Dark Love

                    She could feel a smile just starting to tweak the corners of her mouth. He was there, across the room, framed between the business-formal shoulders and pointed gestures of her colleagues. It was useless to resist, even as she tried to avoid meeting his...

Skirt Full of Stars

                    They gazed out from the hilltop, glinting sparks of tension in the warm, muggy darkness. He was pondering the constellations of street lamps and headlights below, forming a halo-ed suburban universe. There, a galaxy of lights around the high school and its football field, here a...

Unplugged

She kept scrolling, presented with endless vistas, gorgeous clothes, delicious food. A treasure trove of some fantasy life style, carefully composed and curated. The biomass spinning a golden web of collective desire. It was so easy to get sucked into digital nirvana and imagine someone...

The Black Thread

She tugged the needle through again viciously, and then choked back a sob to hold the material closer to her tired eyes. What shadow of her teenage world view had made her think black on black was a good idea? Oh yes, black doesn’t show...

Meditation in Yellow

My gaze carefully swept the room one last time. Each piece of furniture, each little knick knack, each book, and each piece of art wove together the tale of a life independent and carefully considered. They were not grandiose possessions, but they were treasured, and...

The Tightrope

Muscles taught with determination, I felt a drop of sweat caress my arm as I sensed his gaze in my peripheral vision. Fighting to maintain balance, we had struggled with the same existential tensions pulling us between defined identities others found so intuitive. Instead of...

By the Morning Shore

    The sea always seemed to wipe the mania of her frenetic existence away. She would remove the bit and blinders of every day life for a time, reveling in the relentlessness of waves upon the shore. The unfeeling dependability of the next one arriving was soothing, and...