by Laura Bogush | Feb 9, 2024
“Do you think maybe it was a mistake to break up?” I said to a former boyfriend during a phone conversation, 3 months after he ended our relationship. I was devastated and unable to heal. He kept calling me. Our relationship had lasted several years, my first real...
by Lisa Kan | Feb 7, 2024
I was colliding with my “good girl” façade. I was wrestling with what I was told I was supposed to be, and the lived experience of failure that demanded I crack the façade and dance with carnal desires. I sat on the bathroom floor crying ugly tears. My marriage was...
by Tosh Patterson | Feb 7, 2024
I watched him smell his left fingers. He slowly sniffed the middle two. “Smell,” he said. I held his hand and sniffed his middle fingers. The aroma smelled familiar, but I could not place it. “What is it?” I asked. “You,” he...