Joaquine: Short Stories and Poems

“The truth. The truth shall make you free my friend. For it is said that a true man dies in the warm embrace of mother dead. Be true, and wait for that glorious day. For we all arrive to that appointed hour. There is no delay for us truth believers.” -Father Jopel Aguilar                   After a dinner full of festivities and endless plates of wild bison prepared in so different ways that Robyn Sinful was surprised that she could eat more than one of the enormous plates she was presented. Abraham sounded half-drunk as he continued his assault on the party of old and colorful jokes that had wolves and humans alike almost shocking on their own food.  Elias just played with his food and Dean was in deep conversation with Jellrich, but more often than not just looking down her short and revealing top.                 Roby...

Robyn Sinful “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers Book I                 “Fools say that they never make mistakes but the road is paved with their corpses. For we all make mistakes in one way or another. It is human nature after all. Denying our mistakes is like denying we exist. This I have learned in my solitude.” – The Stone Prisoner. Chapter I                 Sunsets were always a nostalgic time for Robyn Sinful. Some of her most painful memories can be pointed to those sunsets in the other roads she had traveled. The last painful sunset that played in her mind as she was when she lost her left hand. Well, not exactly lost but she ...