He was asleep behind me with his palm set possessively on my thigh. Hot breaths crawled along my skin and wrapped around my neck like an invisible noose, stealing the air as I struggled to suck it into my lungs. My body felt like dead weight as I lay beside the last man I’d ever have chosen to gi...
Bold and bright enough to fill up all the aching spaces inside me. Enough to sustain and encourage when part of me wanted to break. It gave me the courage to shun the creeping fear and push on with our lives. The kind of life I’d always promised to ...
But the second the door closed behind me, it was on. I raced back to my empty classroom, my feet barely touching the ground. I threw the door open to the darkened room, and it slammed closed behind me. Squeezing my hands into the tightest balls, I squealed and ran in place...
A rich tenor rang in her words, this modest kind of confidence that sucked me in, while her cheeks seemed to continually light with a gentle flush when she said anything that embarrassed her in the slightest way. A sublime contradiction, self-assured and shy. How ironic it...
Swal owing the lump in my throat, I held onto the table in front of me, forcing myself to speak. “Lizzie, I’m so sorry.” Even if it hadn’t always been the case, even if I’d spent the first five years of her life wondering about her, longing for her, there had been a day I’d believed this child wo...
My thoughts were on a man I both wished I could forget and clung desperately to all at the same time. Why I did this to myself, I didn’t know. But every morning, it was the same. After dropping my daughter off at preschool, he would invade, the recessed memories clawing their way out and into the...