Flaw Salad

They tell you who you are. They come into your life, they have a look around, and they tell you who you are. You, the emotive one. You, the weak. You, the wise. You, the stronger than you realize. They know you so well after their little root around. Hogs, that’s what. They dig for — read more

One day, she ran out of words. She reached down deep, and none were left in her. She said all the things a person could say, and she laid her head to rest. After a long sleep, she awoke to the same. She could no more tell the birds they were singing than she could — read more

You can’t bear the words happy or love, or you can’t hear them, because they sound like something in a cheap, plastic toy or on the face of a cartoon bear with large, shining eyes that dances and sings and asks you to pretend this life isn’t so empty, really, because there’s sunshine in it. — read more

I knew you the moment I saw you, and I live in fear of your magnitude. You’re too big for me, too powerful for me, too much more than my delicate heart can handle, and I weep at the ease of your destruction. A mere look, and I collapse. A touch, I surrender. Please don’t — read more