"It worked again." That's what my ex said while he was telling me all about his new love. "It" is the online dating app he used to find her. The same one where he found me. Technically, "again" is wrong…
View writingIt's been one of those months - the same as the last 5 months actually. Did what I think happen really happen or was that just a movie I watched where bad things happen to good people? When I think…
View writingTrigger Warning: Existential Themes; Profanity and Strong Language; Mental Health; Cultural References, Stereotypes, & Appropriation; LGBTQ+; Food/Eating with Sexual Connotations Title: “Oh, it’s already been broughten!” (1,087 words) Or – The Clovers vs Lady Mondegreen Or – Pop culture and…
View writingWe were at Pender Lodge in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. They are located north of the U.S. San Juan Islands of Washington State. My neighbor, John, and I met in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was born in Nunda,…
View writingThat would be my husband. Lots of talking in the dark, especially lately, as we deal with a family crisis, a fundraising challenge on our almost finished film and my own medical issues. Sometimes we lie awake talking at 4AM.…
View writingHe comes to me by night, and we talk...of course i dont talk out loud because i dont want to wake my dear husband peter...but paul and I and talk to each other in our thoughts. Paul, my first husband,…
View writingOurs was the only house on the block with the Christmas tree up until May, what were once poinsettias in their crinkly red and green wrappers sitting on the front steps, Santa deflated like a sad flacid penis on the…
View writing“Someone to talk to in the dark” sounds like a song title from the fifties. I mean, it needs a sad ballad tune, swelling perhaps in the realization that either (a) that is what one has in this “love,” or…
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