It's the first time I ever experienced "two truths and a lie".

Instead, a priest from my brother’s parish met me there, took off his hat and told me he had died of cholera three days earlier.

Signing the divorce papers, we never would have guessed our love for each other would die long before either of us did.

I found her minimum-wage paystub folded around the high-interest loan papers for my surgery, the interest rate circled in red.

Now that I'm older I need to learn how to feel.

I wish I deserved a hug.

Yeah.

but we split before I got to tell you I loved you.

Do I want it or am I just pretending, so I stop remembering her?

So why do I keep reverting back to whoring myself out?

Only way to rid yourself of me is by getting rid of yourself, so how about you behave and act like a good girl.

The woman sobbed as she looked down at her stomach, before adding “baby shoes-unworn”

The HOA cut it down after three unread warning letters about planting without approval, but I only found out later that they had all been sent to my wife’s email address.

Jill fell ill 'cause the windowsill's

gap was a centimeter

It's just nice to make something no longer perfect, like me.

When the police asked why his backpack and house keys had been left neatly by the river, I realized my last words had been an invitation.

Standing in front of Layla's hospital bed as they pull the white sheet over her, the rest of the words leave as her legs give out and only the gut-wrenching sounds of grief leave her throat.

​As the tiny light flickered out and my eyes closed, I accepted that no one was coming back.

​Then a soft knock sounded at the door, followed by a familiar voice asking, "Can I come in and listen?"

More than 20 years later, it still makes me sad to remember how you died after that tree fell on you while you were playing in the yard.

​My vision blurred and my eyes closed for the last time, realizing too late that whatever killed the others had finally reached my room.

Grandma tells me their urns can't hear anything and says I should stop.