Saturday Morning_All Is Forgiven_The Haunted Hat of 205_Family Holiday Politics
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Saturday Morning
CW: references to alcohol, mild swearing, and infidelityWe all have matching yoga mats, gifted by mom’s ex-husband. Marie rolls hers out, laboriously straightening the rectangular foam to make sure its edges are perfectly flat. Her blocks are stacked right beside it, a tower that would make the parent of any toddler proud. Mine is curled up at the back, and I can’t help but want to kick it a little to the left so that the space between hers and mine is uneven along the length of them. Katie won’t be here until the sessions at least ten minutes underway.“Did you leave him, or what?” I ask, sitt...
All Is Forgiven
It wasn’t like Larry to worry but more than often he had to catch his mind from wondering. He’d lived with what he did for such a long time. He more than not had convinced himself all was forgiven, at least he thought so. He had never gotten up the nerves to ask. Iwww.onedoor.ccn his summation, time heals all wounds, but he wasn’t sure of that. Larry at the age of eighteen did the unthinkable, however for him it was because of fear. He and three of his school friends the summer before graduating high school went on s summer vacation. They were so looking forward to it. This would be the first time for al...
The Haunted Hat of 205
(CW/TW: content of sensitive nature including HIV, the supernatural, and death mentioned)October 4, 2017It’s been nearly a year since I moved in. The hat’s gone. He hasn’t visited either. Three times the hat and he appeared, sometimes arriving separately and sometimes together. I feel as if I’ve lost something. Is it odd to consider losing that which may never have been here? I’ve been thinking of this more and more since their presumed departure.“They leave us,” he had told me, specifically referencing his hat. He felt the hat had left him, but truthfully I believe it went searching. It had a...
Family Holiday Politics
You read to the girls before bed, it's your turn, and anyway it's nice to get the opportunity to as you don't get to see Ava very often. She's your cousin's daughter and lives in Canada. The two girls have tucked themselves up in a makeshift bed on the pull-out sofa, they've zipped their sleeping bags together to make one giant one, and they are giddy. When you finish the book they don't seem any sleepier, but you kiss them goodnight, switch off the light and leave, then you sit on the stairs just outside the room.You hear the excited low whispers ''Why does your Papa have a mark on his face?'...