M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 155
August 5, 2017
Sunday Thinking
When you fall out of love with someone, everything you feel when you acknowledge that moment is bittersweet, because once upon a time, that person was your everything, and you couldn’t imagine them not being in your life. But then something shifts, and it doesn’t have to be something that either of you have or haven’t done, sometimes it just happens, and all of a sudden that person is no longer stealing your breath, but draining your energy and time. And that’s a horrible feeling; I don’t thi...
August 2, 2017
Tainted By Our Choices
Tarred by our choices is a contemporary romance that has flashbacks, sex, environmental awareness, and a slight fixation on dessert. Potentially all at the same time.
Meet Jack. A successful environmental officer working within an industry that is so very far from his childhood dream of saving the planet, that he no longer recognizes himself. How he’s found himself in Houston, Texas, where he has no one, and nothing but his work for company, he tells himself repeatedly he doesn’t know. Bu...
July 31, 2017
Victorious
You watch as he intertwines his fingers with hers, ignoring the way it feels like his fingers are talons clawing through your gut.
She smiles at the contact and squeezes back with practiced familiarity. Her head turns, and she freezes you with a smile. She may as well be sliding an ice knife right through you when her gaze falls to yours.
You smile extra wide, as though all is as it should be. Big, bright and bold, the picture of happiness at their happiness.
But she knows. She’s always known...
July 29, 2017
Sunday Thinking
Still needing to see a little kindness in the world… bear with me!
Woman’s ‘simple act of kindness’ of sharing beer and burger with homeless man
Oklahoma cashier’s act of kindness leaves foster parent in awe
Acts of kindness in wake of Waltham fire
Five-Year-Old Learns Important Lesson In Kindness Thanks To Stranger’s Gesture At Church Fair
Plymouth firm’s random acts of kindness have spread to London
Why Kindness Matters In The Workplace
July 28, 2017
Stars
They say that the stars twinkling in the inky canopy overhead are dead to us. So hot that they shimmer. So out of reach that we can hold out our hands to them, finding nothing but air ticking our palms when we pull them back. They say, stars are much like aspirations. Bright, shiny dreams that will forever be unattainable, and long gone before we can capture them. Well what do they know? We are stars. We are our dreams. We are our own aspirations. We are inspiration, and we will light the way...
July 27, 2017
Smile
There’s something about him that’s not as it should be.
At first glance, he seems fine; untameable sticky-out hair, big, pale green eyes that look open and honest.
It’s the smile that doesn’t seem right. Not quite reaching the eyes, it appears as though it were a misplaced sticker over something you were never meant to see. The edges, ominous, protruding from underneath.
The steamed mirror reflects predator; eyes enticing in, smile seductive, poised to strike whenever he chooses.
You sigh. Wi...
July 25, 2017
Perspective
From this hilltop the city is a sea of fairylights, with a distant lullaby of soothing sounds set to lull even the most restless soul to sleep. For all the calamity seen here, there is calmness. Pockets of hope and pieces of sanctuary, strewn across a velvety backdrop, twinkling up like diamond facets, and like shining sequins, like smiles of delight when caught just in the right light. The right light makes all the difference, shifting monochrome to technicolour, and mournful tones to joyful...
July 24, 2017
A World At Peace
There is no stone at this altar. No offerings, no sacrifice. No sense of something missing. A quiet appeal for reason and kindness, the kind of things hoped for when the world is at peace, and the only thoughts rippling through a person’s mind is about what they can give, not what they do not have. It’s peaceful here. Quiet and contented, that pause between breaths that knows with certainty what is happening, having experienced something wonderful, full of anticipation now of only good things...
July 22, 2017
Sunday Thinking
Lots of lovely kindness in the news again for this week’s Sunday Thinking! Anyone would think it had been an unpleasant week or something…
Hong Kong charity’s ‘kindness walks’ a step in right direction to help homeless
Bluffton business celebrates 10 years with 10 random acts of kindness
Manchester teen recognized for act of kindness
East Tennesseans invited to take part in ‘Kindness Project’
July 21, 2017
Hello!
It’s been a little while since I set up this blog to try and bring all of my fiction into one spot. Thank you to those who have since followed, commented, liked, and retweeted, you’re the best motivator to keep writing that there could be!
I thought I’d tell you where I am with some current projects, just so you know where things are, or some things to keep an eye out for.
I have two short stories that are currently published with an online publisher, and once the rights are returned to me th...
