I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.
Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.
But who is ever fair in an argument?
What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.
Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.
...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I’m tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering...
There was something out there. And it was getting us.