relationships

Uncertainty

That’s been the name of my game lately, it seems. My sister’s ordeal has been its own beast, and one that has not yet been fully tamed. She’s coping. I’m coping. We’re all coping. We are mining hope like it’s our job and so far it has either actually helped or made it seem that way. But there is other uncertainty around. It swirls up from the bottom like creamer in my coffee, making things…

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relationships

A story about a story

I’m working on this story about a boy and a girl who like each other but the boy has these weird hangups where he is absent during important moments in the girl’s life. Times like when she needs help moving, when she throws her housewarming, that time she has to drive herself to the emergency room, those times her out-of-town friends come to visit and to meet her other friends, that party she throws, that…

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