Just because a relationship ends, doesn’t mean love cannot last forever because at one point, they were your everything. How can they ever become your nothing?
Author: Larry Pattison Jr
Father. Husband. Storyteller. Plural.
Suicide and the Secrets we Hold
Word Count: 1,759Category: Article Latest Version: March 2011 No More Blue Skies It was a picturesque, blue-sky, no clouds, sunny Monday morning. The skies had been bright for the better part of a week. It was the kind of day that if I was dying, I imagine I would think about how I’d miss beautiful days like this. The…
Children of the Rink
The Hockey Child A week-old Saturday paper sat on my living room chair. It had been a really busy week at work and I just didn’t have the chance to sit and read through it. I was about to just toss it into the recycling, but the image of a young hockey player poised for…
Letters to Irshad
A series of letters about engaging in conversations that often divide, in an effort to find a common path forward.
I Must Believe
You are lost now I must stand,
for the change your spirit insists.
So with the Creator’s strength I walk,
for the reality society resists.
Of Kings and Coles
I’ve dreamt awhile the girl in you
With beating hearts enchanted view
Would find alive the boy in me
Our flesh inline, our sprits free.
One Last Chance to Make it Real
Everybody has a hungry heart, but I’m tired of these thoughts being alone in the dark. Tired of being only inspired. Of dreaming about doing. Maybe I’ll fail but what is failure but trying? What is the harm in that?
Train to Paradise Banks
Train Girl. His morning muse. Each time that spellbinding brown-eyed smile entered his thoughts, he drifted back to those transient but lasting human exchanges. It was just a smile , but it was everything for a man longing for even a modest gesture of fondness among the silent resentment that otherwise filled his days.
Just getting started …
“If you treat people like human beings and write from a place that is deep and true, you will find your audience.” ~ Jeff Goins, Writer