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“He made a mistake. We all do.” Kelly took a can of seltzer from the refrigerator and plunked it on the counter in front of me, popping it open with the aplomb of a veteran bartender.
November 26, 2023“He made a mistake. We all do.” Kelly took a can of seltzer from the refrigerator and plunked it on the counter in front of me, popping it open with the aplomb of a veteran bartender.
November 26, 2023Eating makes me anxious. Not exercising makes me more anxious. Thinking about either makes me anxious.
November 19, 2023Just when I felt like I could float like that forever, a sudden splash of water smacked at my face. I panicked and flailed my arms and legs at the same time.
November 16, 2023When I was Josh’s age I had driven drunk or ridden drunk more times than I could count. How could I have survived when he didn’t?
November 13, 2023But what I didn’t, or couldn’t, admit to myself in that bathroom stall in Chicago was this: The thought of leaving made me cry harder partly because of how alluring it was, yet at the same time, how impossible.
November 5, 2023I wasn’t sure I was worthy of something so magical. What I had known so far of love was secret and sinister, and made me feel desperate.
November 3, 2023Besides being ineffectual for scrubbing, the blue sponge squicked me out. Bits of food clung to it, penetrating its pores. I tried to get it clean, but fragments remained.
October 30, 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, 2023