Author Archives: Niki Flow

About Niki Flow

♡. I sign with a heart and a dot because Love, period. Thanks for your visit. If you enjoyed my writing, you may enjoy my first book, "Elanthian Love Songs - A Bard's Tale," written under my prior pen name, Sara Michele O'Sullivan and published on Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Elanthian-Love-Songs-Bards-Tale-ebook/dp/B01BS8DFTK One of the songs from Elanthian Love Songs is available with music on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LRzE_fEERxw ☼ Coming Soon ☼ Twelve Tales, short stories themed for each month, will be out later this year. Sadie and Tony run a diner in Westmont, New Jersey. They met in a very unconventional way. The stories "12 Tales" are told by their customers who are as different as every month of the year. Sadie and Tony's story will begin the book, though it's not counted among the other 12. So, really, it's "A Baker's Dozen" tales. =) You can read their story now, here: "Thin Threads" https://nikiflow.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/thin-threads/

Two Letters

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Graphic art by Niki Flow. Song “Dear God” by Avenge Sevenfold.

A friend asked in a letter,
“How are you today?”
And I wanted to answer
the usual, “Doing well” or “I’m okay.”
But as I began to write
My fingers stopped after “I”
And all of a sudden I knew
I wasn’t going to lie.
So I poured out my heart in a letter.
By the time I got to the end
I realized I felt a bit better.
I asked myself, “Do I send?”
Nothing had changed, yet something had
I put a burden down for a time.
I started another letter.
“I loved your letter. I’m doing fine.”

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