Stories tagged sadness

Why Albany, NY Sucks Shit Through a Straw

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Sometimes you're too far behind to be properly “prepped” for it, sometimes you're too far past to notice, yup, you've missed your (cultural) train . . .

There is no heartbeat, Mrs Stirling.

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I lost a baby two years ago. At 8.5 weeks after seeing her heart beat. I haven't been able to talk about it, but I can write about it. My throat cracks and splinters when I begin to form a thought or word or phrase. I took such great care when…

Open Wound Talking

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My body a ghost

When To Wear Mascara

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it's time for the cold, antiseptic cloth to briskly remove the evidence.

As We Progress

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We all need a place to stay.

My Wild

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Across the lake, there is a camp for the deaf.

Towards the End of Memory

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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/ sadder even than the Twentieth/ with its expansive catalog of horrors.

Svalbard

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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults

white mouth

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...lying there across my vision, a cereal grain pours through the window...

Evensong

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the answer is yes