Sun Poisoning_A Library To Be_Shadowy Garnet_Phoenix is not in Colorado
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Sun Poisoning
Mom said twenty minutes in and twenty minutes out. Put on your sunscreen every half an hour and do not forget your face. Honestly, she thinks I am allergic to the sun. It’s ridiculous. “Come on, Beth,” Bekka and Rita yelled from the shallow end of the CityDay pool. I had been waiting all summer for this Girl Scout outing. We were going to swim all day, buy food from the snack bar, and hang out without our parents. It was my twelve-year old dream come true. With “Bust A Move” blaring on the top ten countdown on the speakers above us, we splashed away looking around for bo...
A Library To Be
“You keep telling me you’re working on something but I never see the results!”“Am I going to have to maintain you for the rest of my life?” “You can’t depend on me forever. I won’t always be around!”“To me it seems like you’re playing. When are you going to take your life seriously?” “You’re twenty-five now, you’re old!” “Where do you want to take your life?” Neither of us have an answer for her. I don’t feel adequate enough to articulate myself not that it would make a difference if I did. All that will calm her is all that I don’t have, confirmation I’ll fulfil her dreams in the way she drea...
Shadowy Garnet
Oolong…Earl Grey…Black…the tea selection was daunting in the cabinet. Grandma Charlie always had boxes of tea although I never saw her drink any. Now, as I was sifting through her belongings it only seemed right to make myself a cup of tea. That and there was no coffee pot in the house and the nearest Starbucks was a twenty-minute drive into town.I had been the only visitor to Grandma Charlie’s since she refused to move into the nursing home last year. She threw my mother out of the house and never liked my father, so he didn’t even try to come and persuade her. I was her only grandchild, and...
Phoenix is not in Colorado
I can’t believe I made that decision. I could've, maybe should’ve, stayed in Phoenix, but I didn’t.I’m here, in Colorado, thousands of miles from home, hiking in the middle of the night on some dark highway with a ton of shitty owls that won’t shut up.I know I control my own destiny. Her breaking up with me, six monthswww.onedoor.cc ago, was the reason I chose to leave. Her wanting me back is the reason I want to be there again. I know I control my own life. Shouldn’t I have some say in what I want? Amy wants me back.I got the text from Amy earlier when I was fucking Jan. Jan and me work together at a resor...