I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.
I could see it so clearly, the zygote-shiney and bulbous, filled with the electric memory of being two but now dammed with the eternal loneliness of being just one.
He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was alrea...
He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
He drank the cotton-candy milk from the day at the pier. The last batch was from the morning she left and this milk was full of plans I didn't know about. When he finished that bottle she was really g...
But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.
But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.
And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough...
A howl was curdling inside me; the ache felt inhuman. Or maybe this was my first human feeling.
When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.
When I said a lot of work, I moved my hands apart to represent all the work. He stared at the space between my palms and asked if I played the accordion. I could feel the accordion between my hands an...
What most people would do in my situation is go to their boyfriend’s house. They would go there and cry and be handed tissues and cry some more and never stop to think that they should really be laugh...
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.
We held each other’s hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real.
Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?
Two plus three is five, check the email, one plus seven is, check the email, eight, check the email, which comes to a total of, who the hell am I anyway, eighty five. This is how he dismembers his day...
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
The rest of the house was perfectly in order, as it always is, thanks to my system. It doesn’t have a name—I just call it my system. Let’s say a person is down in the dumps, or maybe just lazy, and th...
She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then yo...