Author: hdnelson13

I can tell from here that you’ve found the letter, and I hope it explains why I declined the all the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. I wish I could tell you in person, but then we’d miss the whole point of me dying. Which is – your happiness. I’ve been…

Now That You’re Gone No more crescendoing soft scritch-scritch-scritches on bare flesh as you discover all those adorable, itchy places on your body every morning. I buy my daily coffee at the local joint, now that you’re gone. You’ve taken the roasted comforts of fresh-brewed strength with you and I…

Wednesday we promised ourselves we wouldn’t make any plans for the weekend. Because just once we wanted to know what an obscene stretch of unfillled time felt like.  How interesting it would be to decide how to spend all that time when zero obligations stood in the way. Then, on…

I knew I needed to let the guy go, but I was twenty and thought he was the love of my life. Most of that summer after my sophomore was spent working in the college cafeteria, renting a tiny bedroom in an off-campus house with three girls I didn’t know,…