You wrapped your tendrils ’round my mind. You left me helpless, lost and blind.   Full of lies and deceit to get your way, I, a mere victim, was easily swayed.   I took the blame for all your faults. I took each word, locked them in vaults.   But now I stand, no longer ...

I hide amidst the rolling cloudsBecause it’s where I find you mostYour jokes and voice now memoriesBut here you are my friend I miss you every single dayAnd I watch and wait and prayThat I may catch a glimpse of youSomewhere beyond the moon But amidst the rolling cloudsI see you finallyAs I sit and ...

In a November 2021 interview with Stephen Colbert about his part in Tick, Tick, Boom, Andrew Garfield shared his grief on the loss of his mother. He made some of the most honest, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching comments about grief and sharing a loved one’s legacy. I had never related to something so deeply about my grief as I ...

Trigger warning: alcohol abuse, death/loss, depression They stumbled through the front door. Aria grunted under Camden’s weight again. She had his arm around her shoulders to pull him through the parking lot and to their door. Her neck and shoulders would be in pain the next morning, but this was the best way of getting ...

Read the previous parts here. My heart thudded as I tried to comprehend what my eyes were seeing. The mirror showed a live image of Calvin and me taking an evening stroll on the beach. The sun was setting slowly. I gasped at the sight of my physique. My stomach was as big as a pumpkin. ...

Static fizzles gray all around me. The baby knows how to say “ssh.” I wish I could make it quiet. Days pass when it’s all I can hear. I see a leaf on the ground and it strikes me that he would have examined it. Pulled it apart. Turned it over to see what’s living ...

Read the previous parts here. I tried to avoid it, but it worsened as the days went on. I’m talking about the guilt. If I have had listened to my gut on getting an uber, Ian would be still alive. My poor judgment killed my best friend and I can’t do anything but live with ...

Life is full of ups, downs, ins, outs, and sometimes sideways events. When life is scary, it makes grief and loss more up and in your face. “I don’t want to do this without my person, and this is all so unfair,” runs through the brain on repeat. At these times, be present to love ...

Days unravel like a string of lights they pull from the knotted mess left tangled on the floor when they scurried away to the next attraction whilst avoiding taking care of the mass that afforded them a brilliant spectacle of cheer and bloom only to be abandoned when they are no longer enchanted. Around the ...

Rose and Eve are small. Head to toe; they grow lopsided. They grow from two eggs, fertilised by separate sperm.  Rose and Eve are dizygotic twins. Tiny legs Tiny arms Tiny spines. They are nearly born on the mountain, Rose and Eve. Nine weeks too early—a spontaneous birth. They are small enough to fit into ...