I hung up the phone. I really did love him. He made me feel understood- he was my person. After the first time he beat me and the cops came, he promised to go to therapy. He didn’t. After the second time, he promised again…but he didn’t. Soon he was beating me nearly to death every day, and my heart screamed, trying to reach him.

How could I still love a person who hurt me so badly in every way?...

As I walked into my Nana’s catcholic church, I noted that it was too warm. I run cold, but it was so sticky I wanted to crawl out of my skin. We walked through a corridor that felt haunted for no particular reason, and into the room where they had mass. It was all so alien.

Even as a child, I remember being invited to the Christian after school club by my friends, and immediately thinking to mys...

All day today, all I could think about was her. She’s my person. When I hear something funny or see something beautiful, she’s the one I want to tell. One day, I’m going to marry her. I texted her when I was still at work, but she didn’t answer. I know that she doesn’t check her phone much when she’s out and about, and maybe that’s exactly what worries me. The more time that passes, the more anxio...

The rain was coming down hard now, bouncing off the tin roof. The air was sticky and thick. One spot in the corner leaked. It had ever since I could remember. We’d always just emptied the metal bucket and put it back before the next rain. Maybe I should get that fixed. Just because my father didn’t, doesn’t mean I can’t. I could be proactive. But what was the point? This house had to already be sa...

If you’re reading this now, it means that from the moment you find it, the universe is intrinsically changed. I’ve gone back and forth with myself- what would someone 100 years ago benefit from knowing? How much of what I have to say would not even make sense to you without temporal context?

You live in a time driven by fear and anger. A time with a glaring sense of doom, the knowledge that witho...