Many conversations on the topic of love with those who denounce it as if they've resisted its pull and beaten it down or are somehow above it but it's a form of denial because they do not want to admit that love has in fact beaten them left them battered and bruised with such severe … Continue reading In love in denial
The Middle: Secrets, disappointments & rhetorical questions
If this is your first read, you can go back and start with The Last Time, continue with The First Time, and read a post-script in the After "The Last time." _____________________________________________________________________________________ I was at my Mom's early last week, and while she went in the kitchen, I stayed in the hallway and tried to take the … Continue reading The Middle: Secrets, disappointments & rhetorical questions
After “The last time”: Cookie crumbs and lies
When I originally wrote the three-part story that is now published here as The Last time and The First time, I had also written The Middle. But as I read what I wrote, I realized that it didn't do justice to the real dysfunction that went on. It reads more like sex gone wrong, than … Continue reading After “The last time”: Cookie crumbs and lies
