The Write Launch
Image
  • Poetry
  • Short Story
  • Long Short Story
  • Novel Excerpts
  • Creative Nonfiction
Support

Carlos Sosa

Carlos Sosa is a new writer who lives in Rochester, New York where he works in the healthcare field.

Coming Down

I look out the dirty, cracked window toward the road, hoping to see her there; her slim figure, bundled and shivering, hurrying home. But the road is empty save for the brown leaves carried by the wind across the way. Honey’s been gone for three days. That’s unlike her. A pickup doesn’t take three days. I lay back on the hard floor; the air is cold and seeps through the cracks in the windows. The walls are marred with graffiti. Honey and I added our own names to the collection of red and black obscenities and drawings when we found this place, ‘Oscar ♥ Honey,’ big and sloppy, smeared over the wall’s cracks and chips. I look out the window again, squinting to see if I can make her out in the distance, but no one is there. Read more.

Issue 14
Back to Author Index

Get the literary works

Sign up for The Write Launch newsletter


By clicking SUBSCRIBE, I consent to The Write Launch using my details to send me The Write Launch newsletters and confirm that I have read and understood bookscover2cover, LLC Privacy Policy.

About

  • Our Mission
  • Support
  • The Write Launch Journal
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy

in past issues

  • Poetry
  • Short Story
  • Long Short Story
  • Novella
  • Novel Excerpts
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Essay

Contributors

  • Author Index
  • Submission Guidelines
  • Submit
"Imagination and Creativity transport us to fictional worlds, broaden our understanding of differences among people, expand our knowledge of the environment around us, and give us insight into our innermost self."
© Copyright 2023 bookscover2cover, LLC.
  • Our Mission
  • Author Index
  • Submission Guidelines
  • Submit
  • Poetry
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Short Story
  • Long Short Story
  • Novel Excerpts
  • Submissions
  • Our Mission