It’s not possible to want to live another day. There have been too many days in a row filled with suffering. It’s what she thought as she stood over the Hennepin Avenue bridge. She looked into the dark water on an unusually warm evening in early April. Everything had gone sideways in less than 3 […]
An Abort-ion Story
Alone in her sterile room. Only moments ago the doctor and her nurse had left her there on the table. They were pretty nonchalant about it all. You might have some bleeding and discomfort for awhile. Expect some cramping. “You were lucky”, she thought to herself. That was a close call and she didn’t need […]
Perspective
The end of the world was yesterday. She had no idea. She was living gloriously alive in a bunker in the basement of her home since the news broke. It happened swiftly on January of 2056. Within hours, the channels of every platform of every corner of the internet were flooded with news of an […]
Love In The Time Of Corona: Part Five
“How is that a dad joke?” “Ummm, cuz I’m a dad and I made it.” Oh, he was a dad. This wasn’t on her radar. At all. Notorious for being the best aunt and the one oldest daughter who’d never wanted to have kids, her childhood had been riddled with trauma and suffering, so really […]
Love In The Time Of Corona: Part Four
PART FOUR: “What’s a polar bear weigh?” She didn’t know the answer so her response was, “I dunno. What?” Dots formed again and quickly the words came. “Enough to break the ice”. She’d already dropped into the tub and was feeling the warm water surrounding her body when she read it. She laughed and felt […]
Love In The Time Of Corona: Part Three
PART THREE: On Bumble this shows up as a “BOOM” you’re connected. She looked at it. Knowing it was up to her to actually make the first move. She needed to be the one to write a message first. Her heart rang in her ears. She wasn’t really sure why it felt important to write […]
Love In The Time Of Corona: Part Two
PART TWO: The space was lovely, warm and comfortable.She was happy here. It wasn’t her space. But it felt like it. Her friend Anna was out of town and she was holding down the fort. Really, Anna was doing her a favor giving her this beautiful space to pass the time. Anna knew that she […]
Love In The Time Of Corona
PART ONE: She rarely swiped right. Her Friday nights were all about getting to the end of the list of potential matches without actually making a match. Because she wanted to be alone. Everything she told everyone else was different. But here with a glass of cabernet it felt good to judge the profiles and […]
Attached
The sunlight streamed in the window, casting a small golden circle on the fuchsia duvet of her queen size bed. Curling up in a small ball in the middle of the bright patch she made herself as small as possible, arms squeezing her bruised knees tight into her chest and let the rolling sobs she’d […]
The Container
She’d always lived next to the dock. And for years her dad worked the docks. She would wake up well before dawn with him and take the short 3 block walk down to the port where all the shipping containers lived. He would tell her to sit quietly in the booth and play her video […]