Disappear
The bodyguard told me about accompanying dignitaries on long plane rides, how his job gave him amphetamines to keep him awake.
Fizzy
Back home, still in the plum dress, I took my shoes off and held a champagne bottle like a teddy bear.
Erin Lyndal Martin
He gave her perfume for Christmas, department store perfume, not the drugstore kind.
Someone I Admire | MONKEYBICYCLE
“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is the character of the individual walking the path.” —Travis Alexander
I’ve been doing this workbook called Half of a Happy Couple. The author says you can’t ever change your partner, but if you work on yourself the relationship will change for the better. Last week’s exercise was to think of what I don’t like about myself in this relationship, and then I wrote a list of all the times I had been too passive.
Like all the times my
I’ve been doing this workbook called Half of a Happy Couple. The author says you can’t ever change your partner, but if you work on yourself the relationship will change for the better. Last week’s exercise was to think of what I don’t like about myself in this relationship, and then I wrote a list of all the times I had been too passive.
Like all the times my
The Red Ones Come From Taillights
And the nude beach takes over the online personals, at least in the ads that men place.
Spiritualist Erotica by Erin Lyndal Martin: “The Flower Medium”
You probably don’t lose a lot of sleep these days thinking about the Flower Medium of Berlin. I remember you joking that she was a “garden variety nutjob.” She was missing some petals.
Breech
First she swam in me.
Porcelain
Last week was paper chain week at the White Rose Brigade.
Kiss Me in the Sad Mall
If you were here with me, we’d make out in the sad mall while the bass-heavy speakers played “Escapade” by Janet Jackson.
Either Slash Or
You are a Mormon woman, modest but bubbly. You meet a man who just got out of the military but still contracts for them.
No One Comes Back as a Horse
The horse was a four-legged, hooved creature in existence for many years.
In a Cornfield
I don’t know if a cornfield can ever truly be empty, but this one is.
Sex Pistols T-Shirt
I would give you back your Sex Pistols t-shirt, but there’s no way you’d trust me with your address.
The Part You Throw Away
He never wrote her, not a single letter, not even after all the evenings they shared by the coast.
Grow Grow Grow
I don’t need anybody to tell me what I was thinking when I went outside in my boots that day.
The Rock Star Fills In the Blank
I can’t tell what the rock star is singing about, but it’s probably lobotomies or electroshock therapy.
Darling
It was her fourth day off the meds and the second week of his mindfulness phase.
Soft Pink Light
There was a boy who found a dead hummingbird next to a deflated mylar balloon.
BLURT
Learn what it is to love to be wrong.
Neutron Star
Daughters of the Republic
There are not one but two women who are credited with saving the Alamo.
There Are Cats in the Coliseum
Lucky Duck
She was wearing an oversized black Ramones t-shirt made for a boy, and the letters on the front were all in big blocky white letters.
I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
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