Chapter 22: Body Language

Someone once told me that craving a particular thing is your body’s way of trying to tell you important…

Conclusion: Journey On

The artist looks at the blurry decades-old tattoo on my back. Over my shoulder I say to her, “It hurt so much. It felt…

Chapter 23: Forever And Ever

Heartbreak, they tell you, goes away eventually.

Chapter 21: Happy New Year

There’s a picture of me stuck somewhere between the pages of a photo album with a group of friends. I am…

Chapter 13: You’d Be So Nice

When he asked me to move in with him, we had only been dating a few months. It was a romantic proposition…

Chapter 14: Will You Know It When You Get There?

Chapter 18: The Birth of Uncool

All my life I wanted to be cool. Of course, the wanting to be cool is where it all goes wrong. It is the…

Chapter 15: The Princess Who Learned To Lock Her Heart Away

Chapter 20: A Certain Arrival

Five years ago I lived, for a time, in a large one-bedroom apartment on one of the most beautiful streets…

Chapter 16: The Cruelest Month

One night in a cabin perched above a river, tucked away in a forest thick with redwoods and ferns, I let…