Quantcast
Channel: Stories – Brandi Bernoskie
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 20 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Be Epic

Every now and then, I have these strong instincts to do things. Some of these instincts are so intense that they become compulsions, and I quickly find myself swept away. There’s a little strain of...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Weight of a Word

We hold back. We fill our minds with “should”s and “shouldn’t”s, and find we’re frustrated by the walls we’ve built around ourselves. Our desires become tethered to us, and in an effort to rid...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Gypsy Blood

There’s a storm that’s been gathering in me — I’ve sensed it for some months. It’s come in small surges, receding each time. But that distance thunder has been there, and I’ve been counting the seconds...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Lost Colony

Growing up, it was always the ghost stories, the mysteries, the tales of fantastical times and other worlds that I loved the most. They sparked my imagination. They opened my eyes to the wonders around...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Lost + Found

After every breakup, I have wondered how much more I can take — how much more disappointment, how many more secrets, how much more loss of identity I can handle. That was the past. In the two and a...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Space + Time

If there’s anything we Americans want more of, it’s space and time. We want bigger homes, more land, high ceilings, more bedrooms, more time, longer weekends, more freedom… I have told myself for years...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Rut

To put it simply, I’ve been stuck. I find myself in a place where it’s hard to breathe, where I feel the weight of expectations heavy on me. It is as if I were at the bottom of a lake in an air bubble,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Stone Angels

There are stories about the statues at Bonaventure: whispers of them moving locations when no one is looking, stories of statues possessed… And they do seem to have a life to them I’ve never seen in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How I Lost (and Found) Myself

I love taking chances. It’s been nearly a year since I moved to Roanoke, Virginia after meeting my boyfriend at an archery tournament last summer. I knew the only way for us to really explore our...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Mercury Retrograde

Sometimes, everything is chaos. That’s the way it’s been for weeks now. Since Mercury started retrograding, but even a bit before that. I travelled to Scotland, spent a night watching old pagan rights...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 20 View Live




Latest Images