Tag: #Family

• The Fires of Hell

  The flames lick at the oily night sky searching for something else to consume as embers drift and swirl in circles around my feet. I stand there on the drought-stricken lawn one house over and watch as the once pristine craftsman style home gets gradually engulfed by the fires of hell. The front porch, now…

  brshaffer

  January 21, 2020

  Short Stories, Writing

  #Abuse, #Alcoholic, #amwriting, #choices, #compassion, #Death, #domesticabuse, #Emotional, #Family, #Fire, #hell, #hero, #housefire, #internalconlict, #moraldilemma, #murder, #NewBiginning, #Pain, #trauma