Category: relationships

  • Something Other Than Fate

    On Monday, happenstance occurred. Happenstance, I say, because I’m not sure I believe in fate or destiny, puzzle pieces fitting together just so. I see a yellow sticky note on my office floor. I leave it there for several hours. I have things to do. In the mid-afternoon, I pick up the note and take…

  • Writing Inspiration: Dating

    A good date is always a bad date for a writer. I get a rush of delight when I realize things have gone horribly awry and I’m stuck in a situation that I will be forced to endure for another 53 minutes. It’s sweet, the taste of the meat of him, the reassuring thought that…

  • A Waffle House Romance

    I met him at the Waffle House, which was even cooler than saying I met him on the internet He was cute though for a moment as I was walking up I wasn’t sure He had stunning blue eyes usually I go for brown but he was all smiles and there was little awkwardness I…

  • On Country Personal Ads

    I’ve never met this guy and I never will. He offends me to the core. Repusively country. When a dating service asks you what your interests are, they mean what interests do you have that you can share with your future beloved. They do not mean, do you like to go muddin and huntin and…

  • Hag/Fag I

    Being a fag doesn’t seem that hard what’s discrimination to you what’s civil rights to you don’t you care too much about your red vests and purple stripes the gel in your hair, the lotion on your skin walking in high heels like sissy boys queerflies the unnatural the unwanted the disembowed the goddamned Group…

  • (Reasons) We Love Him, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

            He says he needs soup and a good woman to take care of him. Aw.         He says raw emotion is lame. Double aw.         Sweet is good, he says.         Sarcastic is good, he says.         He shrugs his shoulders when called Pookie.         He says we walk into his jokes like a…

  • Such Things As This

    Inbox says (1) new message Just then (2) new messages My God, could it be. Usually not Usually naught Unusually knot My love in a Sir Mix-a-Lot basket Spare the spearhead the spearmint the spirit man Inbox says nothing I wait on the porch, old school.

  • what he did

    he did what he did but I still think of him fondly when I opened the door I took his breath away something most unexpected something so surprising even to him to the both of us

  • To My Dearest, Part 5

    To: My Dearest From: Medicated Lady Re: Evaluation There is compelling evidence that you do not feel you have made an error in judgment concerning me. This is disappointing as I had not terminated you; I had only put you on probation. I fully expected for you to come through a reassessment with no problems.…

  • Completely Pointless Ruminations (as most ruminations are)

    This whole time, I was thinking I had only recently licked my wounds from the ex of 2008. Then I remembered that last November I was developing a solid relationship with a guy who would 3 months later leave to go to Japan for a couple of years (aka the guy who left the country…