I ran to my room, changed my clothes, threw the mini and vest in the garbage. I washed my feet, all black from running across half the city. Took two Tylenol for my aching knees, washed off the make-up, tied my hair back and fled to Anda’s. I had soooo much to tell her.
We never [...]
My lungs were burning, my side ached but I kept running…all the way to Pitt and Second before I realized I’d been running with heels on. Until that moment, I didn’t know I could do that. I’d considered running down the back streets where darkness, shadows and trees could hide me but that made me [...]
The following July, I visited someone at the General Hospital. I can’t for the life of me remember who, but I do remember what I was wearing. I’d made myself a funky blue mini skirt and matching vest; paired with a white poet shirt with full lace cuffs and oh some bitchin platform heels, [...]
My mother could not grasp what had happened to her. She cried and begged Dad to take her home. “Did I really do all those things?” she would ask in such a pitiful voice, a memory burned into my own head forever. If I stop to think about it, I can still hear her frightened [...]
Madness invades you slowly…quietly. It circles you and finds that chink in your mental armor where it can enter and take up valuable space. Of course, sometimes, things like trauma or witnessing something that is more than you can take, will open the door wide for madness to just move in and sometimes never leave. [...]
He opened his eyes and stared. More like he was looking through me, to a place only he knows. Slowly his eyes focused and he saw me. His dark eyes, his hair, his skin…He’s so beautiful it makes me want to weep. He smiles weakly. He looks surprised. Eventually, he sits up. Do I tell [...]
He ate quietly and I was looking for the right moment to approach him. This is ridiculous…he’s going to get pissed…just do it…I pick the moment just before he’s finished. I start by asking if he’s not tired of eating the same thing day in and day out. He says he doesn’t mind. I launch [...]
Just before I got pregnant with Linus, I came home to find out Jonathan was in the hospital. My mom said his mom called. He’d tried to commit suicide…I remember flying out of my father’s house, running to catch the next bus. My thoughts were all mixed up. His brother found him and was carrying [...]
The situation becomes ridiculous as people get too stoned. Phil pulls me close to him and says “thank you…it means a lot to me.” I go back to my chair, flush with this amazing feeling inside. Andrew Gilchrest is still watching me. A girl named Noella decides it’s become too strange in here and decides [...]
I have few good memories of high school. Even those are bittersweet, tinged with the unexpected, the unwanted. The most prominent memory I have is both the best and the worst. It was the week before Winter Carnival and a bunch of us art students had finished creating sets and displays for the festivities to [...]