What is it you look for in the love of your life? Is it his eyes? Dark and soulful with just the right promise of mischief? Eyes that hold you in their very center, No matter what other distractions crowd into sight, Melting you with a single glance. Maybe it’s his integrity. The way everyone …
I was so ready to plan our wedding day. It was the moment I had dreamed about since I was a little girl, and I just couldn’t wait to get started. The moment my beautiful Tiffany ring slipped sparkling onto my finger, I was raring to go, scrapbook and excel spreadsheets at the ready. The …
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She lost herself in tumbling streets, beside canals lit with fireflies flickering like stars. She walked among couples, hand in hand, whispering the secrets of the chosen into ears, and necks, and lips. She lost herself in alleyway bars, with milk-crate stools, and tumblers of warm amber that burnt away the memories of another’s touch. …
JoJo & Cam I met Cam in India ten years ago, on a graduate training program with the company we had both joined; he was from Sydney, and I was from London. Our holiday fling turned into something more serious, and we decided to give long distance a go. After six months apart, I …
He picks her flowers on his way to work. Pink confetti rains down on his head, a secret smile tugging at the corners of his lips. ‘Who is she?’ I wonder as I pass him. Our eyes meet and a million stories swim in his topaz depths. I imagine her joy as he presents …
Dearest future mother-in-law, In just five months, I will walk down the aisle with one of the most amazing humans that I have ever known: your beautiful son. I don’t need to tell you how special he is, because you already know, probably more so than anyone else. What I will share with you, …
She looks at her. She sees her in all of her radiant glory. Her strength. Her passion. Her unique beauty. And the biggest tragedy in life, she thinks, is that she will never believe it. She tells her anyway. “You are beautiful,” she whispers softly, “In the way that the forest is beautiful in the first …
He has never been loved. He tries it on Shrugging his shoulders to slip beneath its heavy weight, Admiring its warmth, that cozy glow. He feels safe. Powerful. He turns to the side, Admiring himself for the first time Drinking it in. He’ll never take it off He tells her. Tells himself. This is not an everyday …
“Of course you’re not perfect. And neither am I.” My partner looks me straight in the eye, wiping the torrent of tears from my flushed cheeks. “I don’t want perfect. Perfection isn’t real. I want you, exactly as you are. I want us. Two people who love each other, learning from their mistakes and doing their …
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Rain drums on shuttered windows, a melancholy rhythm to our sorrow. The sky weeps with us in desolate abandon, screaming to a Universe that will not hear us. We are drowning in the hollow void of you, but we don’t fight it. Not anymore. I am unforgiving of the cruel world marching ever on, As though you had not …