I had a slowly rolling metal ball in my gut. That’s the feeling, at least. It had spikes that patiently tore at everything in me that was once peaceful. It never rested, it never stopped, and because it never left me it seemed to promise that it would remain for … Continue reading
I remember my first headache. I was in the car after an Easter service with my grandmother, we were dressed to match. Pastel dresses with wide-brimmed hats and white gloves, looking back on the day I must have been five or six years old. I had to sit in the … Continue reading
I was never sure what I meant to Dimitri, if he had a heart with a space that I came to occupy. The nature of our friendship was never that he reached out for me, it was that he simply never stopped me from reaching out to him. I found … Continue reading
In the beginning, the streets were still safe to drive on. It was only an occasional storm, the rain was brown in color and a bit sticky as it dried. The air was thick with a humidity that smelled faintly of cocoa after each downpour. Conspiracy theorists accused the government of … Continue reading
