Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.
Due to some mental hiccup I can’t explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket.
But someday I'll fall in love again, right? I'll start over with someone, and maybe we'll buy a big old house with all this new money I have, and we'll have kids, and I'll be a professional writer, ma...
Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature, he says. Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, he offers with a wry grin, Might well...
Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white puschap 22.
And if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.
In the classroom, though, the water rains down on us as Phillip grabs what’s left of the joint, still lit, and swallows it whole, with the confidence of someone for whom joint swallowing is a routine...
Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the world are women. Odds are that at least a few of them would be willing to go out wit...
And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the s...
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.The tears threaten to return,...