So happens, there are infinitely more wrong words than right ones.
Exploration
The Right Words exist for everything.
Angela
Her makeup and her hair don't match. The hair is thin, and graying through the artificial coloring. Her hairline is receding, from age and stress, from the cumulative days she's spent scraping it back, ripping the follicles from the scalp one by one. Today she's pressed it back with a band, opening the curtains on…
Frustration
Writing is itchy.
Not About Love, Ch 2: What If
What did she mean, "not a mistake"? I could see her frame trembling. What did she want? She loved him. She just said she loved him. That's it. That's the end of it. But what if..? Dammit! I thought I was done with that... that thought. What if? There was a hollow silence between us, her…
Distraction
Reality was pretty damn loud this week.
Creation
The creative process begins the moment I silence reality.
Not About Love, Ch 1: New Year
This isn't a love story, and that makes finding beginnings and ends difficult. So I'm going to start right here, somewhere in the middle, today, with the girl I'm waiting for and the secret she could have told me yesterday. She should have told me three weeks ago, or on any one of those chilled January walks,…
Waking Up
Depressed but not defective.
Light
Ever think about all the people you will never get to meet?
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