His small hand slips into mine as he readies himself to jump from the van door to the pavement below.  Almost as soon as his feet touch earth, his hand is gone so he can run to the grass area in front of our van.  So much energy, I think with a smile, I closing and locking the door behind him ( Read more... )

At first, everything was wonderful.  He made me feel special when he made love to me, when he introduced me to his 3 year old son, when he introduced me to his friends.  He convinced me that I was beautiful.  I believe me when he told me that he loved me.  After all, he wouldn't say it if it weren't true, right ( Read more... )

For so long, I walked through a crumbling castle.  It was dank and cold, with nothing to cover the bare chill coming from the walls.  Everything, inside and out, was shrouded in darkness.  I tried to take the stairs to the top of the tower, desperate to see some bit of brightness, but the stairs were covered with slick filth so that each time I'd ( Read more... )

It's been three weeks.  Three weeks since I realized that the bottles were empty and I'd need to get more.  Three weeks of putting off the phone calls or e-mails, then finding out that I needed to go somewhere else.  Three weeks of descending, slowly at first, then picking up speed like a cart at the top of a roller coaster.  Three weeks without ( Read more... )

I stopped blogging almost a year ago.  I stopped visiting here some time ago (can't even remember when).  My days on the computer became filled with incessantly checking my e-mail and flitting between one mind-numbing Facebook game to another.  I just couldn't write.  So it's going to take me a little while to get back into it.  And with signing up ( Read more... )

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