Tenterhooks I could tell when they asked me to sit down that this wasn’t going to be good. We stay in a strange stand off, not saying anything, while I imagined the worse. Each scenario was worse than the last. Each worthy of tears. Still, they said nothing. It wasn’t my place to start the […]

Age It’s not just a number, not at all. I had no way of knowing that making the promises was the unwise part. They were normal promises made to a normal person. I thought they were normal, because I was young and foolish. I was wise in some ways, yes. But I was very much […]

Sparkle Sometimes, things do things they shouldn’t. Snow, at the right temperature, in the right sunlight, looks like glitter. He’s not a mischievous little boy. He is sweet, and always laughing. He is well behaved. In person, you note that he gives warm hugs with his stocky little arms. If vampires disappear in photos, this […]

Zoo “The thing is, and I do promise this, we weren’t drunk. If we had been drunk, we would have been a hell of a lot more agreeable about the whole thing. Or, I would have been. It made sense, in theory. ‘Adults night out at the zoo!!!!’. I thought, great! I can look at animals […]