Aurora Magazine 2018

Gone is the girl who feared the flames. Never again. I’m not the nice girl, the good girl, the compliant girl.

I’ve risen from the ashes, and now it’s your time to burn.

Alone Together

B . C . F A R B O

Alone together, she flipped from Chet Baker, back to the tinny Top 40 Hits, touted to be non-stop.

That is when I knew she wasn’t the one.

Convincing myself, I could love anyone who would bother to interrupt, a broke faced Okie in mid-sorrow, was building a funny valentine upon the sand.

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