Snow settled on the windowpane.
I groaned as I lifted the window.
Opening a project window was like lifting weights.
I grabbed some snow.
It was soft.…
A cyst grew on my stomach.
Sometimes I squeezed pus out of it.
It was bothersome, sitting beneath my belly button, begging to be burst.
But it didn’t hurt…
"Talia," I thought, "you don’t belong here."
Sitting five pews back from the pulpit I listened attentively to the Pastor.
I was with people, many who had, or…
Church was foreign to me. Yet I found its culture fascinating.
The people were in high spirits.
They sang.
They shouted.
They cried.
They worshiped.
They…
I was singing and dancing as safely as I could from behind a steering wheel.
Then I saw my Uncle. He looked skinny. His big black coat nearly buried him. His…