I pointed at the ’90s cars in the background and asked, “So you just skip the trial and go straight to sentencing?”
Six months later, my husband handed me another paper plate and sweetly volunteered, “I’ll do the dishes tonight.”
By the time we noticed the stars, the bottle was empty and we’d somehow solved every problem in the world except who was getting up to make dinner.
Standing at your door now, I realize my silence was a choice, and it’s one I’ll have to carry long after the mourning ends.
The second everyone started clapping, he threw his arms up and shouted, “Did we win?”
"Well, the plague's only dangerous to humans."
No matter how much time passes, I still feel like the entire world is watching me, waiting for me to make the same mistake again.
In the early hours of the morning, while his family sleeps, he writes the most beautiful poems that no one will ever read.
She smiled through all my daily attempts at conversation, and by the time I was discharged, I felt like I needed another heart surgery.
"You're an hour late, where the fuck are you?"
I’d spent my whole life wishing she’d stop meddling in my business, but lying there that morning, I finally realized that was just the only way she knew how to love me.
As she slipped off her skin, revealing an infinite void beneath, I realized that she was telling the truth.
Fuck..so cool!
No matter the thorns on our path, we will stand united and prove our strength until even the skeptics are forced to take notice.
I waited for the third positive thing, since that was the assignment, when I realized they did list three.
Just all of them at once when she fell into a garbage truck.
I pull my robe tighter around myself to stave off the chill as I watch my husband pace the small clearing behind our shed.
We barricaded the door with my desk, lined up the kids on the wall, grabbed the bat from the closet, and for over twenty minutes we held our breath, not knowing it was a drill.
And if anybody calls you out on it, act as though you have no idea what they're talking about.
Watch our passion and listen to our resolve, for we will not leave a single chance for failure until we have claimed our victory.