Category: Heartbreak
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Miles From Nowhere
“If you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station. The longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be.” Breakups let you off at that nearest station. I still didn’t know where I was going, but at least I wasn’t on the wrong train anymore.
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BDE
I don’t know what was so confusing to him about me being less soft. Earlier that afternoon he had confirmed my worst fears.
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Heartbreaker
His sense of humor is malicious sometimes. He likes to set people up to be mad at him and then flip the situation so that we’re foolish instead. Except this flip didn’t work.
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Without Him
I tried to go to bed without him, but the thought “without him” coagulated, forming a lump in my throat. I was used to going to bed without his body next to mine, though not in this room.
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Portuguese Letters
She was wooed. She fell in love. Things got hot and heavy. Then without explanation she was brutally ghosted. The timeless relatability of this tale made me so grateful I was already booed up. I never want to deal with dating again.
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Big Feelings
I’m going to pick the Etta Jameses and the Chavela Vargases and any other artist who can put their feelings into my soul. Every. Single. Time. I have big feelings and I want art that can match that magnitude.
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A New World Woman in an Old World Town
If, as Billy Joel says, “Los Angelenos all come from somewhere,” the Azores are the bookend, a place where everybody has gone or is going or is missing someone who has left. Those islands are shaped by emigration as much as California is by immigration.
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The Year We Weren’t Friends
Clearly, he was single, but I guess I was the only person on the planet not allowed to know about it? Did he think that the instant I found out, I would jump his bones in front of God and everyone? Like, dude, you’re cute, but you ain’t that cute.
