All my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]
Read More pink carnationsIf I wait for this spider to crawl out of this room, then maybe I can go after her. And on the other side of the wall there’ll be this underwater world and I’ll swim to the deep end and float next to the one of those electrical fish that light up in the dark. […]
Read More Annotated Bibliography, WinterThe fact is, I only met Ellen’s parents a handful of times before I went off to San Diego. When people die, it’s natural to magnify their significance retroactively. I tried. I didn’t have a lot to go on. I observed nothing compelling about Ben and Amanda Walden. Maybe her mother’s eyes were too […]
Read More Household Words 3In Middleton, I was in the school of social work. I had decided against medical school. My mother and brother were in a car accident years before, and they were just bodies, problems and numbers, in that E.R. I wanted people to be something more than bodies. I worked in a fabric store during those […]
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