I thought I was alone.

I was suddenly aware, my heart beat faster, there was a presence, a life larger than me, aware of me. She had been watching me amble clumsily down the path. I stopped searching, listening, but hearing nothing but the quiet buzz of the woods. Must have been my imagination. I stepped, and so did she. The leaves crunched beneath my feet, and then I heard them crunch beneath hers. My head turned, I stopped again. I looked around, the second I saw her she was gone. My eyes could not even focus. The blur of her light brown body and the white flash of her tail was all I ever saw.

Sunlight in the Shower

This morning as I sat on the tile floor of my shower the sunlight suddenly streamed in from my small round window, through the pebbled glass of my shower door and warmed my skin.