Category: personal stories

• A brain, a heart, and courage

  

  You must’ve been a big man in the schoolyard. Yes- that is what I think when I watch you with others. Did you lie in wait for that puny kid who wouldn’t fight back-who perhaps thought that this was how their life was supposed to be;who made up stories as to why they came home…

  Lee Dunn

  October 26, 2021

  mental health, personal stories, poetry

  bullied, thoughts

• Desperados

  ~I drove a car two hundred miles today. I know we’re not supposed to hug, but a woman cried in my arms as I despaired for her world. She said you are my big brother, then pushed me away. At home, the cat follows me. There is food. What could he be needing?~

  Lee Dunn

  May 12, 2021

  Love, personal stories, poetry, relationships

• In print anthology

  

  My story “When I wished upon a star” has been published by Gestalt Media in their short story anthology entitled “Best of 2020”.

  Lee Dunn

  April 26, 2021

  personal stories, short stories

• Hot gossip

  I told you, from a distance, that I loved you, and was blackened with the earned shame of the illicit. Noses sniffed. Fingers pointed. Hands covered whispering lips. But you? You had a look of surprised wonder, and blushed redly, uncaring of the devil’s radio.

  Lee Dunn

  September 14, 2020

  Love, personal stories, poetry, relationships, thoughts

• Grown up

  Kid I was when Dad got my nose showed how to take your thumb apart Oh, and the trick with the hats and cigarette butts How to worm a hook Bought a poetry book Must’ve seen my look Told me I must be a man Face the bullies Have a plan Double up that fist…

  Lee Dunn

  June 29, 2020

  family, mental health, personal stories, poetry, relationships, thoughts, Uncategorized

• Everything, and the kitchen sink

  

  * Mental health triggers, suicidal ideation* God.  You know, I’m just washing dishes, feeling useful and kind of self-satisfied. Haven’t dropped anything or cut myself, even though the bothersome cat is weaving around my legs.  I swear- if he had a ball of yarn, I would have been a coccoon by now. See, it’s the…

  Lee Dunn

  June 25, 2020

  depression, disorders, Love, mental health, personal stories, stories, thoughts, Uncategorized

• The road is long

  In fable days I took a dare to try the mortal maze They shut the door when I went in to walk its narrow ways I felt a fool and out of school unlearned in errantry and suffered doubt and went without a thought of parentry The road is long I sing a song in…

  Lee Dunn

  May 22, 2020

  ageing, personal stories, poetry, rhymes, spiritual, thoughts, Uncategorized

• No words

  

  Looking back, I think she was afraid when I saw her truth. We had never spoken, but in the group sessions, she surprised me with split second glances and strange blushes. Then, tables turned, I made a game of trying to catch her eye. Not a single word. That’s how it goes. …and then one…

  Lee Dunn

  May 9, 2020

  free verse, personal stories, relationships, sexuality, thoughts, Uncategorized

• Puppers

  We were nine. I believed everything you said. Touching a toad gave you warts. Step on a crack, you break your mother’s back. Kill a spider and it rains. We made grasshoppers spit tobacco, knew the divinity of buttercups, daisies, and dandelion chains. Such puppies in love.

  Lee Dunn

  May 7, 2020

  free verse, Love, personal stories, poetry, relationships, Uncategorized

• Hurry hard

  

  Each of us wanted safety.Father, from trouble’s horde.Mother, from father.We chickens, from the storm. All of us were running,and love was hard pressed to keep up.Adolescence held confusion, guilt,and strange desire. I looked for yellow bricks,on the cusp of a fireworks life.

  Lee Dunn

  April 19, 2020

  #family, free verse, Love, mental health, personal stories, relationships, spiritual, thoughts