February 2010
1 post
soap
It had been a long day of mostly mindless reptition, keeping myself focused on textbooks and lazily scribbled class notes as I prepared for the next day’s exams. Feeling tired and as confident about the material as I was ever likely to, I elected to take a shower to wind down and prepare for bed.
I stood for a while and breathed in the hot steam, letting the water run through my hair and...
January 2010
1 post
winter
The text message read that she was in town for the funeral of her boyfriend’s sister. She says that under happier circumstances, she would have called. Given our history, what happier circumstances could there be? She had increased the frequency of her correspondence as of late and like the white powder snow that dusted the ground, each small message made me feel a little colder. In no...
November 2009
1 post
houses
The winter had finally arrived in full, icy breezes forcing me to abandon my habit of keeping the bedroom window open and lofting brown and yellow leaves onto the carpet. With it came the holiday season and a welcome break from increasingly chaotic weeks as I geared up for my finals. I had spent most of the nearly two weeks with her, at claustrophobic Atlanta parties to the top of granite...
October 2009
2 posts
she
The winter weather (as is the usual for this state) had already begun to run off with the fleeting tones of autumn, and I woke up shivering from the cold. The rain continued to fall, more of a reminder of the season than the downpour of the past days. Ash-colored clouds draped me in a curtain of mist and seemed to darken the mood of everyone on campus, who walked in procession like Benedectine...
prelude
It had been nearly two days since she reached out to me (in an admitted moment of weakness) during the late hours of the night and set my mind on edge once more. Heartbreak is perhaps easier to deal with when one knows in advance that it will never work out. So why reach out to me like this? ”It could have been” is, of course, the saddest of words - but I knew that it was not true...