i put you on a podium,
celebrated your investiture,
wore your crown of thorns
and bled down my face,
my tears red, soul dead,
i kept wanting this so
long after you didn’t
that i missed when you
started slipping away
and by the time i knew
i was losing you
it was too late and there’s
really nothing worse
than a missed
opportunity
© Copyright 2026 Cheney Meaghan Giordano
i used to hold on to you
like you were my life raft,
like you were the only thing
keeping me afloat when all
i wanted was to sink
but i couldn’t count on you being there
when things got rough,
i couldn’t trust that in you, i’d find safety
because i never felt safe with you
i thought it was sand that
slipped through the hourglass
but now i feel it’s more like water,
cold and powerful and sacred
until the moment
it pours from your hands
© Copyright 2026 Cheney Meaghan Giordano
Describe one positive change you have made in your life.
Boundaries.
What are boundaries? I used to ask myself all the time, and then laugh hysterically because I knew I had none, and a lack of boundaries is what was making my life so hard.
My boyfriend and I, well, no. Let me rephrase that.
My ex-boyfriend decided he no longer wanted to be in a relationship with me.
He said “this is as far as it will go” and that’s not good enough for me.
We are going to have to live through the hell of sharing a space … Read the rest
“I’ll love you forever.”
“Well, I think forever is a bit too long,” she said, peeling a patch of his greenish skin off his shoulder as they talked.
“But I can be with you forever,” he said.
She touched his face and then grimaced when more skin fell away at her touch, he was rotting right before her eyes.
“I don’t think you’re going to be here much longer, babe,” she said.
“It doesn’t matter what I look like, does it?”
“Well, not so much, but you need to be all in one piece.”
“I think I lost a piece.”… Read the rest
“We don’t have enough to form a coven,” the old witch snarled.
“We will, look, she’s right over there.”
“You mean to take some girl enjoying her day in the park and bring her over to us?”
“What choice do we have? We’ll grab her and drag her into the woods, it would take seconds.”
“But someone might see us!”
“We have a demon to conjure! Now, do as I say and go get that girl!”
The old witch dashed into the field and dragged back the girl.
“I put a hush spell on her.”
“Smartest thing you’ve done today.”… Read the rest
There she stood in her white dress with her father on her arm, a beautiful bouquet of flowers in her hands.
It was her wedding day, the day she had spent her whole life waiting for, and now the time had finally come.
All of the planning, all of the anticipation, the wait was finally over and she was a bride, and about to be a wife.
She was about to be this man’s wife.
The doors opened, the music played, and she walked forward, but no one in the room stood and all was quiet.
He hadn’t shown up.… Read the rest
We have had enough of these goodbyes.
Remember when they were tearful, but full of love, hugs, kisses, the kind of goodbyes you don’t want to suffer through?
Maybe I liked those better than the quiet quitting of our relationship, the way you just backed out like you didn’t feel like going to the game.
A game is all I’ve ever felt like, a person being played, a pawn in someone else’s life.
She doesn’t fit here, go there.
No, that’s not right, either, move here.
Until I’m knocked off the board, and you’re picking up the pieces and leaving.… Read the rest
“Look at this,” he said, brandishing a flat, shiny rock.
“A relic,” the other man said.
“They called it a cell phone,” the woman whispered, her voice sounding hungry as she reached out for the object.
“Now, now,” the first man said, “Finders keepers.”
“I don’t think so,” the woman said, and then hollered a low grunt as she slammed her weight into him, sending the phone spinning across the floor.
The other man picked up the phone and began running, but it wasn’t long before he heard the woman on his tail.
“Give it! They had something called TikTok!”… Read the rest
