I knelt in Emily’s garden for the first time years ago, just as her and her sister, Stephanie, were moving into their new apartment – the first floor of a duplex, a beautiful place, close enough to Lake Superior to smell the water, to feel its chill on the wind as it snuck between the […]
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At some point in the stickiness of last summer while I was detoxing from my psych meds, I got very scared and very sad for no reason and locked myself in my closet. (Ironically enough I had come out of the closet years ago; at the time I didn’t find it that funny, but these […]
We Regret to Report an Anomaly Kandahar Airfield, January, 2013 You know, it had not been the best day of my life, that day back in the early spring of the year before when my mother had posted on my public Facebook wall that “your doctor’s office called and said your cholesterol is too […]
Trigger warning: child abuse, sexual assault and violence “Cuz Christy, if you ever show up around here, I’m gonna kick your ass. And you know I can”; her heavy emphasis upon “know” reflected her conviction that she had done so previously. Struggling to appease her fury, I conceded “Baby Sandy. You can kick my […]
Another Failed LDR I taste him in your mouth, his name stretched past three syllables on your frosted tongue. Combination of lime & taffy dreams. Lipstick on your teeth like perfumed blood. Kiss goodbye blotted on the bathroom mirror. You hold phones in place of babies & beaus. Condensed love pressed to your […]
My sister was the only person I knew who took photos at funerals. The snap and whir of her SLR was hard to ignore as it echoed up the aisle from the back of the church. There was never a flash, only the windows offered light to the mourners, but that sound – I’ll never […]
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