“Happy Birthday Mahjouba. I hope someone gets you the new phone I saw you looking at last week.”
-Love X
Month: August 2018
Don’t follow tail lights through a fog
I might as well have been smothered in a blanket for how well I could see. Sliding, oozing, pouring through the air to swirl around me, the thick fog that rolled in from the ocean behaved more like a wave of viscous liquid than it did a cloud. The road I was driving on ran parallel to the water, and it only took a couple of minutes after the fog hit the beach before it had fully encompassed my car.
The Taking Tree
My earliest memory of Grandma Elias was a Sunday morning at her house. The eggs were firm and golden and the hash-browns were burned, just like they were supposed to be. Everything at Grandma’s house was exactly right, all the way from the Christmas lights which never came down to her little corgi Muffins who followed her like a shadow. It was time for church, but I didn’t want to leave.
I scheduled a mercy killing appointment
“I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed.” -Sir Terry Pratchett on the right to die.
Mom I’m 14, I can have my own demon
My family has a secret. It isn’t the mundane type of secret either: Dad isn’t hiding any affairs, Mom doesn’t drink herself to sleep, and my sister doesn’t sneak boys or drugs up to her room. They do, however, all have their own demons, and they keep them hidden from the rest of the world.
The stillbirth lie
“Time of death: 10:27 AM.”
Doctor Francis turned his back on the exhausted mother, the tiny body shielded in his arms.