It was cold outside, the frigid wind whipping around the trees gave me a sense of comfort. I watched my mother smoke a cigarette and debated whether or not I was comfortable with her rekindled habit or worried.
“I have to feel… adored,” she said between frantic puffs. It was as if it took her […]

Sunset Boulevard… Hollywood Boulevard… the succession became dreamlike, the person in the passenger seat gazing wistfully at the surroundings neither of us could make sense of. Our positions became a riddle plaguing us with anxiety, his unrest evident by the waft of alcohol from his breath that hit me when he walked in my car. […]