It sat on my dresser, unopened for years. I lifted the lid. Shifting through the various necklaces, I searched for the one I wanted. The last time I’d seen it, my mother had tried to rip it from my neck. In the six years since she’d left, I hadn’t even thought of it. Now i...
There was no other way Cora could explain the magical properties of such a nasty tasting concoction. She walked into the coffee shop down the road from Porter’s Pub and joined the mid-morning line. Inhaling deeply, she pondered the irony of how something that smelled so go...
Phone calls and texts dwindled to nothing. We no longer sat together at lunch. We hadn’t made eye contact in over a week. Neither of us ended it. There was no official break-up. There was simply no more us. Bianca said I needed to dump him and that it would give me closure...
Or maybe a strange lack of feeling. Either way the void it caved inside me was all consuming. The weight of its nothingness seemed impossible, suffocating everything else. I went back to school a few days after and was glad of the numbness at first. There were stares from ...
I rolled over and gave Chloe a shove. We’d spent the night talking about little things, avoiding anything to do with our gifts, until we’d finally given in to our weariness. It was kind of nice having a reminder that Chloe didn’t annoy me all the time. I shuffled across my room, opened the door, ...