Ever have one of those times in your life when...

When all in the entire universe seems to just go ptfffffthp? As if it doesn't care that you are even remotely affected by the goings on. Yeah, me too. Geesh sometimes having emotions and common sense seem like such a burden. Especially when people don't seem to care that you hurt the way they do. I'm beginning to feel like a certain busy body in our neighborhood has nothing better to do than to spy on us in order to make our lives miserable. THEN the people I work with are, well, I guess your typical coworkers. I'm pretty sure I've grated on them the way they grate on me. However, I really honestly try to not hold a grudge and just let it all pass by hoping and praying that the madness stop so that peace and calm can return. Grrr. ROAR!! I''m just so very upset by the whole thing. I guess my most major complaint is that I feel like the apartment complex that I am currently living in is being harassed on purpose because someone who lives across the street from it is sticking their nose in business that honestly does not concern them. I mean REALLY who calls the police about parking issues in an apartment complex that they aren't even living in? Then they stay outside under the guise of talking to their neighbors when they NEVER come outside of their house EVER, just to watch as the cops cruise in and respond to a complaint that they probably didn't want to respond to anyway. What a waste of their time and taxpayer money! I don't even think that they handed out a single ticket. Just asked people to move their cars. I don't normally rant like this, but I guess the moral is that if you have nothing better to do with your time than to spy on others then get a hobby. Let the people who actually are involved handle it. We don't need outside interference.

Human Again "D"

Sorry, it's been a minute since I last posted from this short story. IF you are following please please let me know. It means a lot to me that someone somewhere is enjoying my work. Thank you. 

Leigha

Human Again- "D"

Someone picked me up and threw me to the far side of the alley through the column the girl had been hiding behind. It didn’t even hurt. Next to me was another piece of wood I could have sworn wasn’t there before. I sniffed the air. I could smell Sway and the girl. She was still human. Only Riata stood between me and saving her. I stood up, laughing, and stepped down hard on the piece of wood splitting it in two. One half to flew into the air, I grabbed it.

“They were my prizes!” She screamed and flew at me. I ducked. She rebounded off the wall, flipped and landed in front of me. I looked behind her. There was a pile of smoldering ash where Eleazer had been and the wooden stake was still in the brick above another pile of ash that had been Jonas.

“Tsk, tsk. Sorry about that.” 

“Now, you’ll really pay. I don’t know how you got so fast or strong, but you will not leave this alley. You’ll turn to ash like them and I’ll scatter you on the wind.”

“Promise?”

She hissed and sprang towards me. I spun around and darted down the alley. I had to find the girl. I caught a whiff of Sway, his body temperature was higher, he was going to do it soon. I ran as fast as I could and my mind wandered back to the ally. I had never fought others of my kind before. I found them slow and clumsy. I couldn’t figure out why. If I had never fed and they did all the time, wouldn’t they be faster than me? I didn’t focus on that thought. I passed an abandoned warehouse and stopped. They were in there. Riata's footsteps were faint in my ears, but she was coming up behind me. I broke open a window and ducked inside.

I crept along the baseboards crouched on all fours, like a roach, scurrying softly as I followed their scents. It didn’t take long to find them. Sway was talking to her, promising her love and life and the like. Lies. He was trying to dazzle her and make her comfortable with what he was forcing on her.

They were in a dimly lit lower part of the warehouse; I peered over the banister at them. She was seated on a bed in front of what looked like an old walk in refrigerator where I could see four more beds. This must be where they lived. Riata wasn’t one for decorative homes like others of our kind. She had always been more about the hunt.

“P…p…please, I don’t want to be a vampire. I faint at the sight of blood.” The girl begged.

“Don’t worry, after tonight your desire will be for me and the hunt, you will no longer have that affliction.” He pushed her down on the bed. She tried to sit up, but he prevented her. She struggled against him as best she could. I heard footsteps behind me. Riata was close.

I jumped from my perch without making a sound and dodged the abandoned equipment and boxes that littered the floor. Sway heard me. I heard his feet hit the floor and the low growl in his throat. He didn’t scare me. “She’s mine!” he hissed “I’ve laid claim.”

 “You can’t collect when you’re dead.” I jumped on him sending him flying back into the edge of the opened refrigerator door. It crumpled from the force of our bodies. I jammed the stake through his chest. He screeched, convulsed and turned to ash. The girl screamed. I turned and saw Riata holding her tight to her body.

“You had NO RIGHT to take them from me.” She screeched.

“Why not? You took everything from me!”

Panic flashed across the girl’s face as Riata held her neck level to her mouth. “Please, please, help me.” Her eyes begged me.

Hey Moonlight

I came up with this song/poem the other night while driving home from my parents. I was singing it to my kids to keep them awake, believe it or not. Enjoy.

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Thank you for your glowing fun.

Lighting the night until day has begun

Chasing the darkness away

As we dream happy, full of play

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

You are showing us your glowing,

Bursting, happy love.

The nighttime shimmers

As you glimmer around us and above.

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Happy memories

Heartfelt laughter

Caring hands

Held out to hold your glow

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Look at the skyline

The sunrays are finally

Rising to send you to your beds

Sleep in peace until you raise your heads.

Goodnight moonlight

Goodnight star shine

Goodnight lightning bug.