"I am not bound to please thee with my answers". -William ShakespeareI remember how the paper felt when I scratched my answer across, how small and light the pen was in my hand and how I wondered if it was possible to change a life with just my signature. Greg had made me his health care proxy six months after I'd moved in - ironically enough, five ( Read more... )

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place-" Zora Neale HurstonI remember when I realized I was in love with Greg. It wasn't the sort of feeling that I ever wanted to have, nor the kind that begged to be replicated. Most people believe the best of love, that it's easy through all situations and circumstances. That there are no problems, ( Read more... )

'You are the Moon' - The Hush SoundGreg and I used to watch the leaves change in the fall. It was one of the little things he did for me - the many, many little things that meant so much. A lot of people wrote him off as a complete failure when it came to romance, but he had his moments. He showed them to me, of course, and I kept the secret. It ( Read more... )

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar WildeWhen it came to the past, there was more she wished she could forget than she wanted to admit. It was moments like these, standing in the new house in Short Hills that brought those kinds of feelings back to the surface. Not ghosts, she knew, but feelings ( Read more... )

Something Real by Renee StahlStacy couldn't remember the last time she'd seen him, not the exact day at least. It was one of those odd coincidences, their running into each other, that hadn't registered specifics in her mind but had been pressing all the same. It had been one date, one simply horrific date, but now it was almost a game, to see who ( Read more... )