HeartLines

ISSUE 7

Together Again

by Isabella Pesce

Contrition

by Kathryn Haig 

Snowflakes, heavy and dark, fell upon her lashes as she sat in the church’s courtyard, keeping Mary company. Or perhaps Mary was keeping her company. She could never quite tell who was doing who a favor and suspected that was exactly how Mary wanted it. Having tossed her gray jacket over one of the simple iron benches, her arms were naked, her skin rippling with gooseflesh as the biting air ravaged it.

Warmth of Love

by Liliana Sosnowski

April third.
Six-o-six in the morning.
The sterile hospital room is silent, the tick of seconds passing on the circular clock
on the wall ricocheting off
the room.

Mr. Miyagi

by James Shandrowski

You sat in front of the television,
you see a lesson from Mr. Miyagi.
Daniel stands on the bow of the boat.
You think of learning to solve the Rubik’s Cube,

Something Here

by Jacob Kozarsky

“There’s something here. I need you to see this.”

You followed the mysterious stranger into the trees and the darkness. You had every reason to be on edge. After all, who in their right mind would follow a random figure deep into the forest? Yet somehow, you knew deep down that this wasn’t some sort of trick.