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Every time Cassie grumbled about her supervisor Miranda, she remembered the flight they shared on the way home from Las Vegas.
October 27, 2023Every time Cassie grumbled about her supervisor Miranda, she remembered the flight they shared on the way home from Las Vegas.
October 27, 2023As blueberry season ends, here’s what I’ve learned about legacy, tradition, and fake-family.
October 24, 2023“The cops came to arrest and question me!” Michael fumed when he picked me up at the hospital. “They wanted to know what I’d had to do with your attempted suicide. Can you believe that? I was at the police station for nine hours!”
October 21, 2023We were in a heat wave. I basked in AC splendor, on the couch, and for most of the time I could forget about the impending electric bill.
October 19, 2023When denied access to safe abortion, women and adolescent girls with unwanted pregnancies will, as they always have, resort to unsafe, illegal means to terminate the pregnancy.
October 16, 2023The only way Bobby can reach a state of light-heartedness is if he’s high as a kite or having sex, which means the bedroom is the only place where I can win.
October 14, 2023I am an introvert and home body by nature, and my husband’s favorite things often make me anxious. I want to be adventurous for him and experience the things he most enjoys, but I also want to be true to myself.
October 11, 2023I was happy to be on the road. I’d recently busted free from a three-year relationship that had allowed no space for forays, solitary or other. I still struggled to speak to people without lowering my eyes, a habit I’d learned so as to avoid appearing interested in other men.
October 9, 2023I have spent so long trying to gauge my boss’s taste, making recommendations and edits based on what I think she wants to see, that I have no idea what to tell people when they ask me what I’m hungry for.
October 7, 2023When you called later, and they told us the sunroom apartment would come available during the month we needed it, it did something to my psyche, promoted an exaggerated optimism that simply leaving was the end of it, the solution to our past.
October 4, 2023