Is it weird that it doesn’t hurt as much as it did ten years ago when your sister called in the velvet of night with heartbreak in her voice and pain in her cries to tell me you were no more? I googled Grief and How Long It Lasts to get an idea of when […]
Well, it’s almost ten years now… four more days unbelievable how time has floated by. My tears dried up over the years, but a crack still in my heart from a loss so unexpected. Time has covered up the crack not very well but it tries what remains, I can’t describe. A decade ago, death […]
He calls me Sugar And I melt a little bit more than I thought I could or should, or ever would — his smoky voice wafting into my ear, smoky tendrils of promise wrapping themselves around my fogged brain, pulling at my heart strings, asking them to loosen, to allow it to beat freely and […]
I think this is the end. This is not how I pictured it. In fact, I had never pictured it and, perhaps, this is why my heart is churning in shock, agitated by the rip-out process. Your silence is killing me, your indifference clear as day, snuffing out the fire you so expertly lit. […]
Over the last two weeks, I have run into your closest friends. They did not recognize me at first sight. I don’t blame them. I have changed in the last 9 years. The last time they saw me was when we were lowering you into the ground in November of 2010. One looked old. I […]
He was my first boyfriend. He wrote me love letters and quoted the Book of Solomon. I, at 13, had no inkling what those verses really meant. The apex of my sexual knowledge was limited to zero at that age. What I remember is that he was sweet. He would call the house on our […]
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