Released, set free, I sit in the late afternoon sun, seeming to look outward, but the journey turns within. There it is: everything I need to know to escape the limits of consciousness. A writer’s reward is the richness of remembrances. The gift of memory is what I travel on.
Rosanne Ehrlich has been writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction ever since she was accused of plagiarism in the seventh grade.
Woken in the middle of the night, her sweet dream chopped off abruptly, she slowly lifted her head and turned around to shift the quilt.
Knowing what would come next, she stretched and looked into his eyes, with their plea for love, for attention, and for Mariners Choice cat food.
Rosanne Ehrlich has been writing ever since her 9th grade English teacher accused her of plagiarism.
On the plane going home from a B&B in Amsterdam, my soon-to-be discarded partner continues his unending diatribe. I lean over and move my body closer to him to hide the fact of my distaste, boredom, and dislike of him. Fake it until I escape it, I say to myself.
Rosanne Ehrlich’s work has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Persimmon Tree, Panoplazine, The Voices Project, and Quillkeeper’s Press’ Rearing in the Rearview.