Pressure is bubbling up inside me. My ears feel it building, wanting to pop. Electric currents lace through my fingertips. My hands lay heavy in my lap with the weight of that invisible movement, so I pick them up and turn them over as if I’m inspecting them. It crawls under my skin, going all…
The first time, you stood back in a kind of awe. Don’t you recall? Me in the Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt with the sleeves cut off … my yardstick arms elbow-danced in the stove light as I made us breakfast. Delight flickered across your face. It sprinkled around your apartment like fairy dust as…
Day was still night, but it was all the same to him. He couldn’t go back down now that he was up. Couldn’t turn off now that he was on… I remember that feeling from when I was a child. My eyes wide under the covers. My ears listening to the predictable breathing beside me….