Author: hdnelson13

Monster The moon, full and chalk-white, hangs low on the horizon. It is still early. Her cloak ripples slightly in the breezes from the sea, and she shivers. The water will be cold now and she hopes the four layers she has on will be enough. Although, she whispers to…

Uber Ignorance “It’s no different from jumping into a taxicab, Mom,” I said, glancing up from the Uber app I’d been scrolling through. “But anyone can drive up and pick us up? I just don’t know about that,” my mother said, peering aroud my shoulder to look at my phone,…

Family My family has honed the art of passive-aggressive avoidance. Oh, there are issues, to be sure. But we don’t actively talk about it. We just decline dinner invitations and birthday get-togethers and don’t respond to inquisitive texts. And then bitch about our how family is falling apart privately to…

Networking There were a series of head-bobbings, good mornings, and general expressions of greetings as the eight of us filed in for our Friday morning “Local Entrepreneurs” networking group. I, in particular, was not looking as forward to this particular Friday, as our moderator, Ben, would be discussing marketing strategies,…

Tattoo His trans surgery was no surprise to me. We’d begun dating three years after he’d fully arrived, as he liked to say. But, I didn’t see them until we were six months together. It wasn’t even during a particularly intimate moment, not that we’d had many. He just said…