M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 30

Sin

I’m standing in the drowning rain,
Again cursing surrounding world.
Curled on my tongue words held in vain,
Strained memories, distorted, whirled.

Umbrellas won’t stop the downpour,
For raindrops cascade deep within.
Sin coveting what’s never yours.
Sore from a battle you can’t win.

© M K Lee

Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

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Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at e...

Keeping It Simple

Looking back now, it all seemed like unnecessary fuss.

Everyone they’d ever met had commented on the way they looked at one another, how they gravitated towards each other without even intending to. No one said anything of course, as the looks between them became more loaded, and their closeness grew more heated, and even the knowing expressions of their friends grew so frequent that eventually, even they couldn’t ignore what was happening.

There are only so many times you can fantasise about ...

Raife and Dexter: A Work In Progress!

Hello!

Don’t you love it when a story basically writes itself?

Sometime last year, or last century, who knows right now, I was reading over the many, many notes I have for Raife and Dexter and realised I wanted to move into their little world and never come out. I’m sure many writers feel that with their worlds and characters; especially with the world being like, well, this.

While I was getting Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married ready to publish I wrote a little oneshot from Dexter’s...

Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it mak...

Drug

This must be what it is to be a drug addict.
You start out with the best of intentions, which is just to have a good time.
You like the feeling so much, and for a while, things are fine.
But suddenly, it controls you.
It knows you.
It is you.
Until one day, it consumes you.
And then, it drives everything of your world,
Rationality unfurls
Until paranoia takes hold.
You flail, fall, fight the loss of control,
But you always, always give in,
The temptation is too much, and withdrawal claws at your skin.
An...

Thunder

The rain has been falling so long that the sound of it has become little more than background noise. Though a flash of lightning far too close for comfort gets their attention, lighting up the lounge. They look at one another across the couch, eyes widening for the peal of thunder rocking the building. Then the lights go out altogether and they can’t see one another at all.

“Did it hit something?” Nicholas asks jumping up to look out the window, sinking into Chae’s arms already around his wai...

At Three In The Morning

Here is a short story that is part of the Raife and Dexter ‘verse; happy reading!

Okay. So how the hell is he getting out of this without both revealing himself and making, potentially, the biggest mess he has ever made? At least in this room. Was it even worth it? All this sneaking around at three in the morning because of an urge he just couldn’t control? Dexter can’t even remember enjoying it at the time now, even though that time was barely a few seconds ago and the taste is still in ...

Dream Life

Contentment.

That’s a feeling that she’s always understood but never known what it meant.

Her life, everything about her day to day, is as it should be.

She has the home, the little house that overlooks a small farmland in the middle of nowhere and yet close enough to civilisation to not be completely isolated.

She has the home life, the man who looks at her as though she is the sun and it is his life’s mission to ensure she rises every day by bringing her every happiness. The bi...

Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married

Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it mak...