She Tells Me About Life in the Desert
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell The way a cactus can retain pounds of liquid to sustain itself and the poison of the slow-moving
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell The way a cactus can retain pounds of liquid to sustain itself and the poison of the slow-moving
Photo by Ussama Azam on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell In the bathtub, she sits across from me. Our legs intertwined underwater. This isn’t what I want it
Photo by Enguerrand Blanchy on Unsplash by Alex Stolis It was the Wild Wild West, it was rain that never stopped, a cold blanket of wind from the
Photo by Jørgen Håland on Unsplash by Alex Stolis The grandmother speaks broken English, Paradise has never seen her in anything but an apron because she is always cooking/baking/canning/cleaning
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash by Keith Hood The airplane broke the ocean’s surface with a barely noticeable splash and barreled through water as it had flown
Photo by Bjarne Postma on Unsplash by Jayne Martin He lays the arm of the old record player carefully down to where its needle meets the black surface
Photo by Max Smith on Unsplash by Judy Darley After that, we went to the pier every afternoon. You liked it best on stormy days when sensible folk
Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno on Unsplash by Anika Carpenter Your newly upholstered armchair has been expanding since the moment it was finally delivered, it is now the size
Photo by Kevin Solbrig on Unsplash by Cath Barton I should have realised when I saw the little clown car with one of them in it, tipped upside
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash by Vallie Lynn Watson Spring surfaced. The hammock was still off-limits. In their winter folds, she’d taken him on her porch. It
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