“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.”

“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.”

“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”

“Never stop dreaming or reading.”

“In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.”

“I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.”

“I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”

“I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.”

“The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?”

“Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.”

“Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.”

“I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.”