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It’s too late, isn’t it? There’s no way this can possibly finish well so perhaps this time it is for the best that it just ends.

I see your lips moving can feel the vibrations from your throat. I hear the sounds you’re producing and recognize the language the syntax the words and idioms that you are producing in our native tongue. I get all the … Continue reading →

I. He didn’t know which of his victims was haunting him this time. He just hoped it was one whose throat he had torn out. II. Her heels clattered down the empty corridor as she raced for the door. She … Continue reading →

Rita is afraid her son is gay but she can’t talk to her son about it for fear of hearing the truth so she speaks to her niece in confidence in a darkened room with no one else in the … Continue reading →

It would be better if I knew what I wanted. It would be good if I found my joy. It would be easier if I understood myself if I was ready for happiness if I could imagine it and its … Continue reading →

I am shriveled. I am shrunken. I am made small. I am short and sullen and slanting towards a spitefulness I do not desire. I am sad. I am dark. I am dirgey. I am dour and dank. I feel … Continue reading →

It astonishes me that I no longer have a bad back. In my twenties and into my thirties I felt stabs and stresses and found weeks where it was difficult to stand as men do. I first caught Bad Back … Continue reading →

She was upset with me she said for not asking if she was all right at the top of my call. I assumed you’d be I said particularly after you proved perfectly capable of picking up the phone. She hung … Continue reading →

When we marry, beloved, let me be involved when selecting the wedding dress. I want to be there as we decide how to best show the world that you will be mine. It is vital that everyone invited and anyone … Continue reading →

I wake up grumbling remembering the darker images of the night as I fought with my subconscious and a rumbly tummy. I am haunted by yesterday’s meal and try to settle my upset stomach with leftovers. Black Friday. The remains … Continue reading →