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It’s Okay, Because I Love You
It’s okay, because I love you. I used to listen to that song, all the time, (No, I won’t sing it, but buy my albums on iTunes) because I loved someone, and I wanted them, more than I ever knew I could, because I am the kind of girl, who wants things so much, too…
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Let There Be Love
Sometime around my seventeenth birthday, in fact, exactly on my seventeenth birthday, I was sat, crowded by people who loved me, staring down a cake, that made me anxious, making a wish, for someone else to love me, differently, obviously. I wasted a wish, on a waste of time, waiting for too long, for the…
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Lockdown: Day Number… Honestly, I Don’t Know
The world is ending, probably. I’m not a doctor, or the prime minister, so I can’t be sure, but everything feels unapologetically apocalyptic, so I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to think. I think I’m supposed to panic, but I’m actually relieved, laying in the dark, remembering little moments of life, my heart, still…
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Happiness, And Other Made Up Fairy Tales
I thought, for a change, I might try to be happy. I read once, that you can have the life you dream of, if you believe enough, but I’ve swallowed so much snake oil, that I’m not sure there is room for more, so my belief system is just a blanket of bad ideas, patched…
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Go To Waste In The Wrong Arms
I guess I never learned to paint my nails properly, like everything in my life, I can’t quite keep between the lines, but you don’t seem to mind. You tell me they look nice, and your voice, soft and reassuring, is all the convincing I need, to keep splattering black nail varnish, in the vague…