Blood Oranges
“Go to him, stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed.”
“Go to him, stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed.”
I think it’s Amateur Night for couples.
My silver fox fur coat ($140 from Craigslist and super warm) and my blue sequined jumpsuit.
When I was 16, a pretty young blonde named Dru Sjodin went missing from the parking lot of my local shopping mall in Grand Forks
It’s like how your body never really forgets how to ride a bike or drive a car, how dogs will walk back to the place they were born, how babies know every nuance of their mother before they’re born.
Fooling around with boys I didn’t like that much while yearning for others who didn’t notice me at all, made Liz’s words, written 13 years earlier, feel like my gospel truth.
When you’re scared like that, all you can do is pray like hell.
The round, flawless shells of chocolate protectively enclosing that sweet, melty fondant.
Either you really, really like to drink and fight or you just wanna look exactly like the Most Beautiful Woman to Ever Live.
He ended up in my bed, in my pink sheets, the way lots of boys have. And he kissed me and I kissed him back and it reminded me of the boy who murmured, “We’re just two corn-fed kids” before he pressed his mouth to mine one winter night.