Good Hair Day
Last month, I bought a / blow dryer and a round brush.
JAKE
How to be a daughter
add glitters, / add sprinkles, / add prayers,
Bad Habitus
Dad had developed a taste for tobacco by the time he was 14. It would be a stolid companion throughout his life. As a child, I thought his ability to hold entire conversations with a lit roll-up in his mouth was a kind of superpower.
(IF IT'S NOT LOVE) THE BOMB WILL BRING US TOGETHER
I knew I should have said something then, something to the effect of: I’m sorry. He had not wanted to go to the party, let alone watch the game. Earlier that day lying in bed he had listed reasons why it was a bad idea...
Small Town as The Palimpsest That I Keep Trying to Reset Back to Original Childhood Happiness
Would we have been friends in a different town? / This town is all I have of you now.
Tucker Leighty-Phillips Discusses "Maybe This is What I Deserve"
TLP: Even when you’re critiquing something, you have to have an element of hope. A yearning for something better being out there, and possible.
Ten Reasons
She falls in and out of sleep, flips between episodes of dreams. Her mother’s screaming from inside a flooded urn, “Let me out of here!” Kitty’s playing Toss the Onion Ring, Mona’s mouth as target.