Stories & Poems | Brooke Davis Writes

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Feb 25
1 min

Holding You, Upon the Sea

Regan almost couldn’t bring herself to return to the beach where she’d lost Josh. The rescue team had never recovered his body, and she’d...

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Feb 10
1 min

Renaissance

We are all glaciers as we transform, split, and calf pieces of ourselves. Beliefs fall away. Discarded and outdated, the mind seeks new t...

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Jan 27
1 min

Thank You, Daddy

Kayla smiled as she sat in the passenger seat and stared at the Route 66 Christmas ornament that hung from the rearview mirror. This woul...

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Jan 6
1 min

Choices

The precariousness of life strikes you only as you move through it. Like a maze with dark alleys and tight turns, it careens out of contr...

Dec 18, 2020
1 min

Christmas Surprise

Gentle snow fell as Emma and Travis bundled into their red VW bus and set out for home. Emma shook the snow from her hat and grinned at h...

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Dec 7, 2020
1 min

Regret

When the path diverges, we must always choose, not knowing if the road untaken will ever present itself again. With the benefit of time a...

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Nov 20, 2020
1 min

The Ghost Cousin of Christine

In her dream, Madison fled up the forest game trail to escape her vindictive zombie boyfriend. When the chrome bumper and rusted hood of...

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Nov 6, 2020
1 min

Marking Time

Existing is not living. It is marking hours, hiding in plain sight, pretending nothing is wrong.

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Oct 22, 2020
1 min

Mothers

Jessica sat at the window and watched the snow fall in soft flakes onto the distant mountain. January in Vermont was a test; who could ou...

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Oct 7, 2020
1 min

Permission

We are not allowed to feel the sun warm our face for more than a fleeting moment. We are not allowed to bask in newfound love without bei...

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Sep 24, 2020
1 min

Sweating Out the Truth

When Elizabeth discovered the yellowing, brittle diary in the dusty trunk stashed in her recently departed grandmother’s attic, she consi...

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Sep 9, 2020
1 min

Waves

Love shifts, like a herd of horses drifting over the wide prairie, changing directions as the wind blows.

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Aug 22, 2020
1 min

The Soundtrack of Love

Erika sighed and purged yet another box. She and Tyler were moving for only the second time in twenty-five years of marriage, and they ha...

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Aug 12, 2020
1 min

What Remains Unsaid

What remains unsaid rolls out with the tide after parting. Time and distance provide the illusion of safety. But beneath the calm, the ri...

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Jul 23, 2020
1 min

Unavoidable Loss, Lyon County, MN 1887

When the destructors descended – the fire, the robbers, – Annabelle had wept. She hated that house with the hill so close behind; the opp...

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Jul 9, 2020
1 min

Summer

Summer glides like a vulture surveying its prey; merciless and low, it circles and calculates. Silently, it touches down and cackles as i...

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Jun 25, 2020
1 min

The Last Song

Ethan sat on the edge of the deck, strumming his guitar in the mist that blanketed the hayfield. He’d debated during Emily’s service whet...

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Jun 11, 2020
1 min

Resuscitation

Amidst the raw carnage, my beating heart lies still. After their deaths, the chamber drained, empty. But now, distance and time have drie...

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May 22, 2020
1 min

Getting Out

Marvin Hemstead was getting out. Joe Cochran was a greedy idiot who’d almost ridden the gang into an ambush of deputies after the last r...

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May 15, 2020
1 min

Prairie Storm

The wind whirls the spring storm down the mountain, across the wide valley chased by laden rain clouds. Fat drops splatter on rocks and w...

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