I miss the smell of the back of your neck, warm and sweet with your delicate sweat. The curve of your lips, full and tense with the worry that threaded through you. Lying in your bed, t-shirt clad and dreaming of our futures, a cliche on display. I miss your scars, shiny and raised flesh, […]
Amanda smiled as she drifted through her house full of people. The impromptu gathering had all the earmarks of a social success. Music played in the living room, people both dancing and debating the superiority of one musical career over another. The dining room table was filled with trash talk and laughter as two Kickstarted […]
So here’s the thing, I have four different prompts to choose from right now. They’re all sitting around me, staring at me, writing little stories in my brain. And I really want to get to them, to move them from my brain onto the page. There’s just one little problem. My brain. It’s being a […]
I can remember the sound of my father’s heartbeat, my cheek and ear pressed against his chest, my entire body sprawled over his stomach. I tucked my barefeet back to rest atop his hipbones. That is how tiny I was, how small and young I was when I last remember laying safe in his embrace. […]
My friends are green. They fill their instagram with pictures of all the litter they pick up while walking their rescue pitbull. They wash their bottles and cans before dropping them into clean, blue bins. They knit their own market bags and fill them with oddly shaped, entirely organic, locally grown produce. They prep meals […]
Anxiety sucks. It feeds on itself, narrowing my world, driving my social circles smaller and smaller until it’s just me, work, and my beau. Those closest to me get this, and have put up with my fluctuations over the past decade. I haven’t been very good with my limits… and from an outside view it looks like […]
It’s been a crazy and sometimes heavy week for me. I’ve got another writing project that is really taking up my creative mojo. So, just to make sure I’m not neglecting my little experiment, I thought I’d drag out something I wrote a couple of years ago that still makes me giggle. Normally, someone dies… […]
My weekend was productive, if not totally introverted. The beau had a research paper to finish, so I curled up on the couch with a series of Ken Burns documentaries and started a cross stitch project. I haven’t done any sort of cross stitch in years. It’s an odd sort of hobby. When I say, […]
After some emotionally charged dialogue with a friend, this tension breaker ensued over gchat: Me: <insert penis joke> Scot: That’s better than <insert penis, joke> Me: I don’t know… Scot: In my mind inserting a penis joke is better than joking about a penis insertion. Usually. Me: In your mind, sure. But, in your butt… […]
My therapist tells me that I am good at attracting friends. Well, not only at attracting them, but engendering warmth and generosity from them. I’m sure this is all survival mechanisms from my childhood, mixed with a fierce streak of loyalty to those who treat me with love. But I remain eternally surprised when one […]
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