Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings Okay, folks, give me what you’ve got. Everyone’s working on Maine coverage. So let’s get that out of the way so we can put that one [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings It’s September, and it is very cold. A wee thing shivers by a concrete corner. She is five and afraid, but she doesn’t look down; instead [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings I had pulled a 16-hour shift and walked home in that storm. I was soaked through and through. Even though the rest of me was shivering, my feet were [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings Hey bud. (silence) Mind if I sit down? (silence) It’s hard to be in there, right? All those people… (silence) …sucking up all the air [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings Enough. You want me to believe I’m nothin’, Janey. How did you put it? “Don’t fantasize about a life you just aren’ meant [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings The inflection of every sound is unique. The volume, intensity, pitch, and timbre produced by the movement, density, and temperature of Lake Ontario [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings There are a billion ways to be blindsided by it. You’re toast, done, you can’t ignore it. You’ve just been sucker punched. Sometimes [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings “Not with a bang, but with a whimper.” ~ T.S. Eliot The centuries came and went and we were content living in denial; all too damned stupid [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings I remember those shiny years. I carried the weight of every thought and expectation but my own. Then came the first disaster – and after that it [...]
Written by: Leni Sosa; Permanence of Wings I’d been looking out the window since first light. It had been sunny, but after three hours, a darkened sky and rain decided to scare the sun into [...]