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 …