Being Single In Your 20s
When single in your twenties, single despite authentically embracing the concept of commitment, you can hold your head high.
In Silence, We Don’t Know What We’re Waiting For
Silence is loud. Our non-speaking mimics white noise; it’s static on the phone, it’s inaudible mutterings, it’s background jumbles at a…
How Winter Wakes Us Up
We will observe. We make note of the people we want to sit beside on New Year’s Eve, and we begin to know who we want to secure our warmth from, physically and emotionally.
The Wedding Day
Today’s the day her first love gets married. As Mia peers at her own reflection in the mirror, with the navy…
When The Heart Expands
The fireworks explode over the dark water that night as the cold sand buries her ankles. Jessie’s grandmother calls out from…
Beauty Like That Knows No Home
They’re in close proximity, but they never touch. Once their fingers brush against one another; once skin makes contact, it becomes real. And when it becomes real, it’s over.
The Best Things In Life Come When You’re Honest With The Person You Love
“Well, according to Ray Bradbury, 3 am is when the soul is the most vulnerable.”
Feeling Homesick, But For Time
Certain memories unhinge a particular power; a vehicle for feeling something in your bones that you previously felt a long time ago.
Nostalgic For My Old Summers
Growing up, summer meant that school was out, and all I really cared to do was pretend that I was a version of Britney Spears, strolling along Rockaway beach, singing the words to “Sometimes,” while envisioning my life as a pop star.
Christopher Street
He is sitting outside the local bagel café, reading the Village Voice, while casually lifting the blonde strands of hair away from his eyes.