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Sarah Doughty

Sarah Doughty

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Sarah Doughty
Sarah Doughty
Sep 22, 2015 · 1 min read

Anxiety can be so completely suffocating: a sand-trap of your own making; sticky black claws that cut into your thoughts and drain the energy from your mind, like the intangible older brother of the common river leech. When you reach up for a hand to grasp, who is it that offers theirs to help?

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Sarah Doughty
Sarah Doughty
Sep 21, 2015 · 1 min read

You not here — the lack of pressure of skin against skin…my body aches for the warmth of your face against mine, the soft bristles of a budding beard in my neck as you push your lips into it and a ripple of heat moves down my spine.

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Sarah Doughty
Sarah Doughty
Sep 21, 2015 · 2 min read

Flight

Her mother had once told her the story of a girl who fell from the stairs and became a carved wooden sparrow as she hit the floor. This was around the age of five, when the world was her bedroom, her home, her street, the daycare two minutes away by car. This was when her mother herself was still young — 35 years…

Sarah Doughty
Sarah Doughty
Sep 21, 2015 · 1 min read

Secrets for the Young

He pulls a pillow from the couch

slips it beneath her head

on the floor

ribs press lightly against

ribs