“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 […]
Ella Dies
Ella sat on the stoop of her building and smoked a cigarette. It had been months since she’d picked up a pack of American Spirits at the gas station but tonight she was on edge. She’d been on edge for a few days. She couldn’t shake the feeling that someone was orchestrating her death. Yesterday […]
A Wish For A Scar
WARNING: This story is graphic. If you have sexual trauma you are working through please don’t read it. I’m sharing my fiction here but don’t wish to trigger suffering for anyone so note that this story could be a difficult read and choose for yourself wisely before you scroll further and read it. ****************************************************************************** Marla […]
The Enormity of Life
*It’s 4:15am on July 26th 2019. Margo tosses in bed and throws the covers off her naked body. She can’t sleep. Can’t get the feeling out of her that she’s never really done much in this world to make a difference. Can’t stop the pain screaming in her left wrist. Broken and swollen, in a […]