Tag Archives: childhood
The Stings Our Hearts Get
You might have been my first, leaving me humiliated, wondering what I’d done wrong, how I could’ve been better for you. I realized later, when I heard she ate sticks of butter and cut herself for attention, that sometimes the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged breakup, childhood, first love, grief, loss, love, memory lane, nostalgia, poem, poems, poetry, writing
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Breathtaking
She sits down at the bottom of the pool and stares up through the clear waves, the sunlight dappling down through goldgreen willow leaves. This is a memory of childhood. This moment will never come again. She stares up — … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged childhood, fiction, flash fiction, loss, memory, pieces, pool, swimming pool, writing
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