Posts by Jeremy Ray

I had wanted to see my grandparents’ house one last time before it was demolished. So when my flight was canceled, I couldn’t stop crying. Tomorrow my grandparents’ house would…

Maybe recognizes the old, raspy-voiced woman humming. She’s the only one that pets him in the backyard. He loves how she scratches behind his ears and tells him he’s a…

Neil strolled through the forest. He hadn’t been here since 2003, when the storm knocked down his and Merida’s giant oak tree. ​Their marriage came crashing down too, in its own…

The finely dressed girl with thick black hair places the necklace around Becca’s neck. Becca stares at her balding reflection.“Beautiful,” says the girl, no trace of sarcasm present in her…

Everything you need to know about a man is in the books he reads. I scour my suitor’s library as he uses the restroom.Men without books are undeserving of another…

The dragon begrudgingly lumbered into the village, as he always did the first day of spring. As he passed each hut, he put on a show of smoke and fire.The…

A palm reader told Mr. Complish at thirteen that he would grow up to be the destroyer of the world. Mr. Complish did not want that. Who does?He had a…

“Not interested,” Peg said, after Bruce asked her out.​Who did she think she was?She was a four on a good day.He was varsity everything!A nine on a bad day!A girl…

They call me Mr. Smiley because I’m always smiling.You’d be surprised how few questions I’ve been askedabout who I am.Not one of them realizes they saw me as a little…

Tamsy runs through the dark pasture,chased by his father’s screams.The drunken man casts his voice like a fishing net,but nothing he says will ensnare Tamsy;his bare feet know the way…