Love and Life

"It's not that I don't like you...it's that I'm in love with you." These words that left his lips rang in my ears again and again. The memory was set on repeat in my mind. I could hear his raspy voice that accompanied his eyes I could so clearly see when I closed my own.…

"Meet me at the tree before soccer practice," she'd told me. All day, I could not shake the thought that this would be the first time that I would be alone with her. It excited me and frightened me, to be honest. The tree was a great distance away from the school; it bordered on…

After years of relentless frustration, I decided it was time that I confront him. And I mean really confront him. For years, I'd suffered from the hair pulling, spitballs, name- calling, tripping, stomach acid inducing glares, and more. He wouldn't leave me alone! Not when I yelled at him. Not when I firmly told him…

"Keep your hands to yourself." It was a simple direction, but not one that I could follow easily when it came to who was sitting in front of me. The girl who gave me feelings I never had experienced before...feelings I didn't know how to deal with. I waited till the fun ruiner turned her…

My whole life I've waited for... a piece of paper? To legally say, "I am married" is to say "I own a piece of paper from the government that says so." In the last few years, I don't think I could've felt anymore married than I already do. When I wake up, my love is…

At a half hour past midnight, the alarm I set on my phone echoed through the vacant library. I resolved it was time to retire for the night. I may need some sleep in order to ace my finals. Besides a few breaks to the ladies' room and the vending machine, I'd spent the entirety of…

Just for a few hours, they said. It'll be fun, they said. When everything in my life came crashing down forever ago, I wanted to do absolutely nothing but sit, sulk, and wait for the days to be over. My friends wouldn't let me have it. So, to a party I went. Inside the grand…

This is part two of the fictional short story. Read part one here. After two weeks of busying myself to keep my mind off him, I felt pretty damn good about how much I'd accomplished. Actually, it was probably the most productive I've ever been. My supervisor even gave me a pat on the back.…

Sometimes I get these little thoughts. It's 2:00 AM. I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, while my love sleeps soundly. I gently push a few strands of hair off her face. Her peace and natural beauty brings a smile to my face briefly, before I return to my thoughts. I remember being a…

Hearing my name softly, I stood there cemented in my thoughts that drifted to my co-worker's hands on the small of my back from the night before. Last night, we'd attended a charity dinner at one of the premiere locations in NYC. Then I heard my name again. I remembered the way he whispered my…