My father wanted to build my character so that nothing could destroy me, not even him. He wanted me to be strong and resilient, confident and self-assured, capable of overcoming ...
“Rachel knew that Drew must have felt Patsy’s judgment and he would not look up.” In today’s #StorySunday USA, a new mother considers sliding doors of possibilities.
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Lucy knows all these things about him, and more. She keeps them filed away in a special part of her brain, the part of her brain that deals with difficult ...
There are moments, situations, that define relationships, when there is a rightness between two people – the way that a society host and hostess, cold-shouldering each other for months, would ...
“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.”
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He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks.
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“I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.”
She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...
In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...
A lover makes a plea
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A woman walks away
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A man ponders his unfamiliar solitude
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A woman’s morning swim is disrupted by her ex
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On the impossibility of comfort and shelter
Judith Turner-Yamamoto
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A television actress sets the record straight
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A woman picks up the pieces after her man goes out for sugar
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The confusions of love
Hannah Silverman
Hannah Silverman is ...
He didn’t know he wanted this until it was happening
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A relationship frays.
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk grew up ...
Is apathy a trait that can be managed?
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‘Everyone deserves the truth, Nouk.’
Clare Howdle
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