It had to happen sooner or later and during the assignment sessions about two weeks later I was told to grab my log book and report for road training. As I approached I was in awe. These are full sized sleeper cabs with trailers and are the mirror images of what you see on the highways and byways, although the sleeper compartment of the training rigs has been modified so there are three seats in back for the students not...

As the eagle fliesFrom the times of the ice they lived.Long before the whites lusted for their lands.Old women sang of the first horse on the plains.Some called the wolf their totem, others the eagle.This is about the eagle clan living on the plains.They moved as the game moved.Life was harsh but they are the eagle clan.Known for their herds of ponies.On raids they painted white eagles on the ponies.Being feared as great...

She was new, how could she have known? (Break up with her, have a fling, do something, back together again) The star quarterback. Handsome. Gentlemanly. Kind. Humorous. (The star quarterback. Monster. Acting. Angry. Dangerous.) The cause of the bill every month for PTSD counseling and her purity pledge being broken. (The cause of her pain, nightmares, and shame) She should have listened to the letter.

Lips. They open and say nothing, giggling instead. Then a brain fuzziness. Then nothing. Then a bed and her brain is foggy and she has a migraine. His breath smells of alcohol, wafting into her face from the right. Then she notices a bit of dry blood on the sheet below her and between her thighs. Then running. Then chasing. Then screaming. Then police. Finally, crying.

The second week is dedicated to two of the most difficult maneuvers, the alley dock and the off set back. If you ever been to a truck stop and were observant you will see rows of tractor trailers parked, the alley dock is designed to simulate parking your trailer in such a lot. You actually go past the open parking space and then your attempt to put your trailer between the trailers already there. The slightest mismanagem...

It amazes me how so many people don’t know how to wash their hands properly. You see it everywhere: on TV, in public toilets, even in hospitals. It bothers me to the point where I wanna rant about it. So I will. Let me just say that I’m not a clean freak, or a hygiene freak, by any means, but the hand washing thing does irk me. There really is no excuse for it. We are, after all, supposed to be educated. This all started...

A shooting star at midnightSoars across my universe.A stream of light across the sky;The celestial essence of you. A parallel universe;Two opposite realms;A transitory moment;A glimpse of you. I ache for you,The impossible dream,A hidden secret locked away.The key was lost long ago. The dream will never be.Never discovered.Never mine.Never ours. Trapped in the hell between two worlds,The abyss has captured me.Impassioned...

The side of my head flat against the ground.Bitter cold air makes it hard to breathe.Red gravel and purple skies. A sickening stench of rotten flesh, my senses have come to know.The Past tormenting, the Future terrifying - From the corner of my eye, it makes its way. Helplessly hopeless - I resort to prolonged self-denying. Never-mind living, when in death there's harmony.No tears, No fears, but a crier cries out '' Die R...

She's a creature of the night She's the wind and the rain She's the twilight, she's the dawn. She slips unseen in between men's dreams. Her steps light as the breeze that ripples thru the leaves. If you look in her eyes you can see the stars and her countless untold dreams, and her restless search for another's heartbeat. The owls haunting call in the dead of the night echos her tears for something she cannot describe Her...

He hears the elevator doors open and close, the click clack of high-heeled footsteps drawing closer, then passing his door on their way to the next apartment. He waits. Jacob had always been good at waiting. He hears the jingling of keys, then footsteps moving back toward his door. His door is unlocked. He had been expecting her. She had always been easy to predict. The front door opens, then clicks softly shut. The carpe...

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This poem only available on Stories Space. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen.Light puddles on the floor,Crawling along the wooden slatsAnd bleeding down the cracksTo nowhere and somewhereAnd anywhere thatStartsRightHere.Mellow honeyed scentOf angels thatSings streaming through the windowIn the daytimeAnd seeps across the moonIn the nighttime,I breathe in the soot on theHearthstone ofGod's heartAnd am not...

No one had known and no one had seen. She was covered only in sterilized, cauterized wounds and somehow that made them less guilty, less damned, than she was for leaving a world that she wasn't needed in. Hated. Ignored. Alone. Terrified. Used. a Sacrifice. 

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