Family · Opening collection
The last ordinary Tuesday
She asked if I wanted the leftover rice and I said I was fine, which was true in the way that sentences are true when you are already…
Turning the page…
Turning the page…
A shelf for regret, said well
A made-up drug would swallow the feeling whole. Elon Musk on X. This is the other dose: write the regret with enough craft that someone else doesn’t have to learn it the same way.
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Family · Opening collection
She asked if I wanted the leftover rice and I said I was fine, which was true in the way that sentences are true when you are already…
Opportunity · Opening collection
The offer was not even that large. That is part of the sting. I can tell the story as if I declined a kingdom, and what I actually…
Relationships · Opening collection
I wrote it in the notes app at a red light, then again in a better sentence at home, then again with the cruelty taken out. By the…
Should have said · Opening collection
You were already late to your own sadness, trying to wrap it up so I would not have to hold it, and I helped you. I said “at…
Career · Opening collection
The meeting had gone long enough to justify leaving. I had a train, which was true, and a reputation for being concise, which I had been polishing for…
Self · Opening collection
I have a talent for preparation that has begun to look, from a certain angle, like a refusal. The course, the notebook, the better morning, the version of…
Money · Opening collection
I saved the money. I want that on the record before I confess the rest, because thrift is the one virtue everyone agrees to applaud, and I am…