The salt air off Liberty Bay carried the scent of wet pine and distant tide flats as Virginia stood at the edge of the cedar deck, looking toward the misty contours of the Olympic Mountains. Across the Kitsap Peninsula, the September gray held a quiet, watchful stillness—a backdrop to the secret life she had cultivatedContinueContinue reading “Abel Avenged by Coletha Albert”
Category Archives: Spirit
The Heat of ’91 — A Houston Crucible Story
By Coletha Albert In the spring of 1991, Houston felt hotter than usual. Not just the weather — the air itself seemed charged, humming with suspicion. In the neighborhood of Cypress Fairbanks, people whispered about strange happenings at Ravensway neighborhood, about unexplained illnesses, and about sudden misfortune. And in a city already tense from economicContinueContinue reading “The Heat of ’91 — A Houston Crucible Story “
Grandmother’s Jubilee by Coletha Albert
Have you checked out L.D.B. Time to Chill? It inspired this short story…along with other thoughts… never give up your faith. Everything works out for the better in a way you would never imagine. It’s surreal.
The Quartermaster Harbor 13 by Coletha Albert
The television in the South Park living room flickered with scenes of smoke and shattered glass above the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Outside the window, heat shimmered off the Houston asphalt, but inside, the air was cold with terror. Memories of historical purges, echoed by modern echoes of fear, made the decision unanimous. ThirteenContinueContinue reading “The Quartermaster Harbor 13 by Coletha Albert”
Embers to Embers by Coletha Albert
They were unknown in their large metropolitan city as Ariel and Joshua, a boisterously quiet couple who kept mostly to themselves now. They began as two lost souls on the garbage pile of the unwanted. She showed him how to get high and he liked it. She had always been high and did not knowContinueContinue reading “Embers to Embers by Coletha Albert”
Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert
The floorboards of the abandoned parish in Oakhaven still bore the black enamel scorch marks from fifty years ago. That night, six men in gray robes had locked ten-year-old Clara in the center of the subterranean chamber. They burned salt and dried nightshade, chanting long, guttural incantations to drag something cruel up through the earthContinueContinue reading “Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert”
Empowerment Healing and Creative Breakthrough
Let Your peace reign. Let Your courage rise. Let Your protection surround this room like a fortress that can never be breached.
Immortal Universal Law by Coletha Albert
Once you realize that there is no ending but everything continues AND you understand that what your soul does comes back seven fold – you make better choices. Won’t you?
Aisha, Short Story by Coletha Albert
“Aisha, remember that the most beautiful flowers grow in the wildest of gardens,” my grandmother once told me. “But they have to survive the thorns first.” Her words felt like a distant echo, like a prophecy I was desperately trying to rewrite. Growing up as a Black American female was an intricate dance of survival.ContinueContinue reading “Aisha, Short Story by Coletha Albert”
Why I left you
Yes we were soul mates We still are You wanted me co dependent You wanted me over a barrel I knew you had not learned anything You were still a fool Because you didn’t see That I chose you Just like you chose me No traps were needed I wanted you just as you wereContinueContinue reading “Why I left you”
