“For You, I’m Anne Tonight,” She Whispered

"Ever since my mother got pregnant she got hotter than ever."

I couldn’t stop looking at her.Ever since my mother got pregnant for the second time and my father left, she became sadder, but also much more beautiful. It wasn’t uncommon for me to often feel uncomfortable with some of the...

Emily Just Needs Some Fun

"A divorced lady who spend nights bored, but at that party."

Emily was fifty when the divorce finally went through. Eighteen months later, she still caught herself wondering, “What the hell do I even have left?” Her ex kept the house in West Lake Hills, the Labrador named Ozzy, and—naturally—the twenty-nine-year-old...