Heather Scott

Joined February 2021

58 stories

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Writing, to keep my sanity and make some sense of the world, while keeping watch over my five children as a single parent.

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First Encounters
"You look different than your profile pic." "How so?" "I don't know... a little younger... or wiser." "Haha, you're trying to flatter me!"
By Heather Scott6 days ago in Fiction
How to Quell a Broken Heart
Step 1: try to forget Step 2: get more sleep Step 3: close the blinds Step 4: turn on the tv Repeat. If Steps 1 through 4 don’t work, please proceed to step 5.
By Heather Scott13 days ago in Fiction
The Unseen
He placed a ring on her finger. “I won't be ordained, for four more years. You'll wait for me?” “I’m in love!" she reassured him. "What else can I do?!”
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Fiction
Dark
Shadowy figures cross - lights flashing, branches breaking... breathing, from behind.
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
phone connection
Light of my phone - reaching, grasping lighting the shadows around me enough to make out features. I am still alive on this earth -
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
The Universe's block
You waited for this moment - but signs tell you to 'back off.' You are alone now.
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
Ambush
guard steps from shadows pulling machine-gun's trigger bullets crack dark night
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
Silence
Try again. I’m not used to failure. Try again. I’m not used to giving up. Try again – a different angle this time, a different stance, a different pose, a different promise…
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
Dear Moon
Moon, Sometimes I fear there is no intelligent life here. I used to think there were others with whom I could relate, but,
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
Don't you dare give in
Though longing may threaten to pull you in, t'ward one who is 'completely wrong' for you, when loneliness grips, don't you dare give in.
By Heather Scott3 months ago in Poets
Thoughts betray
I swore to never think of you again, nor ever think of promises long gone - a world away, and we were younger then, when love raced fast and summer days were long.
By Heather Scott4 months ago in Poets
Ever-present, in my mind
You were never really here. That is true. Fact. Actual. You never set foot in Canada. I only set foot in Africa. (And not even in your country of origin.)
By Heather Scott6 months ago in Confessions

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First Encounters

How to Quell a Broken Heart

The Unseen

Dark

phone connection

The Universe's block

Ambush

Silence

Dear Moon

Don't you dare give in

Thoughts betray

Ever-present, in my mind

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