“What took you so long to call?” she asks, looking at my face in her mirror. “I don’t know. I just haven’t been properly focused on my appearance.” This conversation would be ridiculous anywhere but in here.“Well, you’re here now. What are we doing with this color?”I scrut...
Jason and I spend our nights at the fire pit, warming ourselves and finding new ways to share an Adirondack chair. Our days we waste fishing, and reading, and swimming in the too cool lake. I play music all week that Jason hates, but only changes half the time, and we bask in each other. &n...
The sight of Margo on the other side of it elates me. I run over and open it for her and hug her until she can’t breathe. “What are you doing here?” I ask, not really caring, just thankful she’s with me. “Please tell me you’re moving home today.” “N...
Without the guilt of an affair and the fear of being caught stifling her, Meredith was playful and funny. She was the Meredith who ate lunch with me naked and snuck pictures of me to hide in her secret file on her phone. She was the woman I was in love with. “So what have you been up to since the...
I asked as Ricky and I walked the hall to our cells. It’d been a week since I’d found Heather on the floor. My foot was healing, but I wasn’t sure I could say the same for Heather. She didn’t even acknowledge my presence in her hospital room when I dropped off her things, and she hadn’t answered ...