I went back to the Gandhi museum on a Monday … when I knew it would be closed.
I was the only visitor on the grounds that afternoon.
And so the gardener let me walk this path normally cordoned off from guests — the path tracing Gandhi’s footsteps to the exact spot where he was shot in 1948.
I stood [...]
Today was the enth time in the past few months that I suddenly awakened to the sound of myself screaming. And found R shaking me, trying to figure out what happened again.
I used to have bad dreams about being tortured by monsters or watching my loved ones die, which would make me scream. But lately I haven’t [...]
Opening Montage:
Dizzying spinning, sickening drinking
Room full of breaking hearts
Cutaway:
Me on my sixth or is it seventh shot
Thought I was whole yet am as broken as they
Transition To:
A talk resumes as deep as the ocean
Should have told him I don’t know how to swim
Jump Cut Series:
Are the hours really passing
The time-keeper forgets to check her clock
Upsot:
Don’t [...]
I’m starting to feel what it’s like to be alone again.
You have to understand this is not easy for someone who has been a serial monogamist for more than half her life. I pretended to be independent but behind me there was always a strong man.
I was with a math whiz for five years who calculated my grade [...]
