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Things You Discover

It isn’t the flimsy certificate that binds us, isn’t the words of the priest who tied the knots around our wrists and marked our faces with ash and blood. Bound by the old ways, what holds us together can’t be … Continue reading

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Vows

If you promise not to ask me about the red thong panties and how they got into our bed, I promise I will not ask you about the blood in the kitchen and the girl last seen wearing them.

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I fear the season’s change for us

I get a chill every night these days and I can feel it in my bones. I can’t escape the ice of it, the thing that comes home and shrieks in the wind, this winter of our relationship, where it … Continue reading

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