You tell me how much you love me and want to spend the rest of your life with me, but then your conscience creeps up on you and you run as fast as you can in the other direction. You sprint back, promising it will be all it was before and more, better than before, because you know what you want now and you’ll never leave me again. I give...
May you be ignored whenever you text someone. May you thanklessly plunge toilets, purge refrigerators, and scrub spit out of sinks among other things that aren’t your responsibility. May a shark pursue you in open water every day for the rest of your life. This was written in response to Maya Stein’s Tri-Writing prompt: Invent 3 new curses OR 3 new blessings. Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share...
Things are hard – harder than they’ve been in ages. But I’m patient, I’m dedicated, and I’m not giving up. When people ask me how I got through these years I’ll tell them, It was my deep inner strength, and they won’t believe me but I’ll smile at them anyway because at least I know it’s true. This was written in response to Maya Stein’s Tri-Writing prompt: What are your favorite tools?...
Right now the agony of knowing we don’t have a future outweighs whatever it is I could cherish as a wonderful memory of our 50 months together. The anger that you let me believe for 50 months that we might have forever eclipses all the rest, and sadly makes me wonder whether I would have been better off if I’d never even met you. I don’t want to have to...
Like it or not, four years ago I thought I had my last first kiss and now I hope like hell that I was wrong and I didn’t. Like it or not, I thought you were the one, but no one who loves me as much as I want to be loved would treat me the way you treated me, would they? Like it or not, I have to do...
