Endings

your hair glistened with chandeliers, succinct but impactful, quaint but memorable. your feet light and astounding in the velvet carpets, a requiem, a myriad of graces — it almost made me tremble. your waist, your hands, and even your lustrous gazes, divine, delicate, incandescently diaphanous, even damning. your whispers, your…

A science fiction retelling of Shakespeare’s Richard II — In chains, they dragged me to the hall of sea-green glass where Henry Bardabar sat on my black throne. He slouched, fingers picking at his teeth, like a man of his meager station. Soldiers, men and women I once dined with to celebrate their victories, blended with the steel and…

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Nancy Bird looked on from a courtside seat as Storm players loosened up before Sunday’s contest vs. the Liberty. And with just over an hour to go until tipoff, she was greeted by the person she was most excited to see play. At 41, Sue, is Nancy’s…

Something feels unfinished between you and me. I don’t know about you but I feel that way. You decided on your own to just end it. I deserved a conversation. A mean comment Anger Something… But silence? I feel disrespected. I would’ve fought for you to be honest with me and tell me…

How our relationship to endings influences the quality of our lives. How do you experience endings? The end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of a life? Things end all the time. When you think about it, half of our experience is things being taken from…

Ben turned left onto Fruitvale Avenue and I began to cry. The afternoon had turned from hot and humid to bright and breezy and we spent it enjoying cold pizza from Terun and chilled ice tea in Pat and Bob’s garden while their eight-month old Golden Doodle ran in playful…

We saw each other for the first time in over a month since splitting homes two days ago. I didn’t really have any expectations or know what I would feel because this is unlike any other experience I have been through. He didn’t acknowledge me and didn’t look at me…