"Old friends re-connect across thousands of miles in the face of marriage and religion"
“I want you to go to bed tonight,” he began saying.“I go to bed every night,” she interrupted, and laughed.“Can I finish?” he continued.“Go ahead.”“I want you to go to bed tonight, and wait until he is asleep. I know...
“I definitely have a different opinion of you now.” Jin’s words made me smile. It was something she had a talent for doing. Making me smile. She did that in our first messages on the dating app, and now that we...
"Two biking friends take the step into a different type of riding."
Hey, Alex. Good morning. I’m really looking forward to going bike riding with you this summer. Did you get a new bike yet? 7:32 a.m. and Helen was texting me. Helen was my neighbor, two floors down and at the other end...
"An older man learns an unexpected lesson from a younger woman when going back to university"
“Speed it up, old man!”The spiral staircase ahead of me was pissing me off for a couple of reasons. First, it was narrow and long, and I was getting dizzy climbing it. Second, I didn’t know how many flights of...
"Now I know that I love you, thanks to a cold, Canadian night"
I have to make this quick. I don’t have much time. I’m at work and there are a thousand things I should be doing, and right now I’m not doing any of them because I have to write this down,...
More than simply quantity, it isThe quality of your words thatRemains with me.Not simply the sounds,But the silences.Music, some say,Is not simply about the notes,But it is just as much about theSilences between them.Each night it is the same dream,Each...
Four years of pretty words,Time spent writing poems, songs, stories,Singing for you on your voicemail,Flowers at your door,And saying “I love you” even when youPiss me off. Enough. Full stop.The time for originality and creativity is over.Romance and ribbons and...
"A man without faith finds answers in a game"
I’ve never really been sure what I am, religion-wise at least. My mother called herself an Anglican, but that did not mean too much to me, since my father’s stance was well beyond run of the mill Atheism – he...