Well at the time he was my boyfriend. I loved him despite the fact all my friends just couldnt understand why I continued my on and off relationship with the guy who was much younger than me to be exact about 7 years younger. It got real...
The Groundhog & BBgun
I will never forget the day I got the call. Saturday October 18th 2008, around 10a.m at a volleyball tournament I was playing in I was told that a good friend of mine had been killed in a car accident. Kyle Jeffery Wickliff, the class clown, a...
A New Turn in Life
It was 3 in the morning, and I felt a presence climb into bed with me. Asleep, I couldn't awake to check on my nocturnal visitor. My eyes closed, but part of my senses alert I felt pressure along my spine, like that of a finger...
I had already survived combat in Vietnam. I'd survived the belts, switches and fists that define child abuse, and a narrowly averted mid-air collision in a jetliner. But I often think that the closest I ever came to dying was that September night...
Everyone has “one of those nights,” you know, one of those nights where severe consequences are bound to happen. Well, I thought “my night” was first semester when I took 23 shots and yaked for about 20 straight...
Two and a half years ago, I met my love from across the pond on FB. We were in love by first chat. My parents flipped out even though I am a grown adult by the time he and I met. Finally, he came to NYC to see me, and I knew I want him to be...
My anxiety is dug out by you and you alone.
I told you not to dig, but you continued to excavate.
You shifted the blame on me, and proclaimed that
I was crazy.
You were the one
who shatter my insides, and you...
This is a story about a lie.
And why you shouldn't tell a lie to the physician's assistant at your local clinic.
Because no one succeeds when a CAT scan is involved.
Looking out through mother's back porch sliding glass door I can see out over the woods separating our backyard and the backyard of the houses on the next street, in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb. A good two hundred yards of dense wooded area...
