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A Confession, Extracted Under Duress
I told everyone once (several times, actually) that sincerely is how I end my letters but never how I live my life, and it is perhaps the one thing I have never lied about. One day, you might be happy, but you are not happy now. I want, so desperately to tell you that you…
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uh-huh, honey
We filled a photo album in one weekend, and every time the camera clicked, framing your pretty face, I thought, “one good girl really IS worth a thousand bitches.” My ring finger has been itching all night. You poured the wine our friends got us down the sink, and we warmed the house with some…
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Seize The Means Of Seduction
I am wearing that scarlet slip I know you like, my hair is soft and smells of strawberries, and I can barely resist another peek in the mirror, glimmering like a midnight fantasy, smiling as I hear the harmony of your key turning in the door. Tonight, I am going to seize the means of…
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He Told Me That He Loved Me, And I Just Ate My Ice Cream
3am, you fumbled your feelings, mumbling some monologue as I absent mindedly ate ice cream, outside the Ingress Park McDonald’s, shivering and pretending to be listening. The lonely sea was a million miles away, but you were drowning, damned and facing your fate, it shined in my indifferent eyes, and you wished with such fury…
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WTF World
April showers in August. My soul sparkles, compliant and clean, regrets washed away, all the names I used to carve into my heart have been scraped off, circling the drain, crying out for one last chance, but never making it past the fortress of my noise cancelling headphones. The world has always been a strange…