April 2020

CONTENT WARNING: Suicide   Marina: I hope you  find my note. You  once said the book   Forever is your  favorite and you  read it twice a year.   What you forgot to  mention was that  you have two books by that title. Pete  Hamill’s has  earmarks, hope I  picked right. Sorry  for the bunny  bookmark. Knew you  […]

Hope lay flopped over a lawn chair;  she had been there for hours  unable to move her limbs,  in the throws of a particularly awful depression.  All alone  until the fly plopped into the swimming pool. The green-tinted vermin swam circles even though it was doomed;  the pool was an ocean, yet it continued trying

While my stepdad placed his stuff into the truck,  I wanted to say so many things.  That I’d miss the baseball games and his ghost stories.  I wanted to thank him for remembering my birthdays  when my dad and sometimes even Mom forgot.  I wanted him to know that, though Mom was cleaning all evidence