Sonia Heidi Unruh

Joined June 2022

170 stories

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I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.

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Sun blind. Top Story - October 2024.
I'm told brides rejoice wide-eyed, heart ablaze, star-struck. But I -- have been burned.
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
Why I curse the night sky
You look down, see all, then shrug your glittering cloak as you turn away.
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
I wrote a play! I wrote a play! . Top Story - September 2024.
I wrote a play! And it is being performed THIS WEEK!! And I just had to share this with my Vocal peeps because ... who better to be excited with me?
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Writers
Let all mortal flesh . Top Story - September 2024.
Sit here, on this rock. Imagine the messages Left by moss and ants, Etched and notched and grooved. Noiseless inscriptions
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
CACOPHANY
Screaming never stopping in my head, in my head Laughing crying laughing at what everyone has done and what nobody has said
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
Still, in our hearts
slipping on the surly bonds of earth into ash, skeletal contrails descend like scratches clawed by a fiery beast. eternal in memory, transient in history,
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
Miranda
Miranda stretched her shoulders, aching more than usual after a long day in the orchard. The evening meal with her parents and brother and all her tíos and tías, usually a boisterous affair, had been tense and subdued. It felt like the time she had crouched in hiding from a cloud of wasps.
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Fiction
On Mute
"Shut up! Shut your mouth!" "I just --" "Listen, I'm warning you. Don't push me. I'm sick of it." "Each time I try --" "No more crap from you! Keep it to yourself. You have nothing to say. Nothing."
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
Psst
My friend says she thinks you're super cute ... Ask her, will she go out with me? YES and do you think she's cute? Yeah but you're prettier
By Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago in Poets
Eas in crucem
Tell me you hear the keening mother rocking, rocking her limp bundle Tell me charred flesh floats to you like unholy incense
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 years ago in Poets
Saturday mornings. Runner-up in Breakup Nonet Challenge . Top Story - July 2024.
Your coffee cup had a pair of wolves touching noses. You’d raise your cup and clink with mine. “Mates for life,” you’d say. I’d chide you for
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 years ago in Poets
Look. Top Story - July 2024.
When I hear story I think beginning, middle, end. I think, we meet a character, something happens, and then the character -- and/or the world they inhabit -- is not the same.
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 years ago in Humans