The Brain Dump

The change was subtle, but unmistakeable. She folded her arms across her chest, shielding herself from me. The gregarious energy that had ...

She emerged from the murky lake water, dark hair dripping and water glistening on her olive skin. Her smile was triumphant and proud. She ...

Everything was beautiful. Incandescent lights reflected off the freshly polished hard wood floors. Unknown flowers with long tubular stems...

The air is tense, thick with anger, hurt, regret, and longing. It suffocates me. I pick at the untouched breakfast sandwich beside me. Ma...

When I go to New York City, I spend money, lots of it. Between dining at the finest chicken spots on the corner of E 219 St and White Plain...

Women talk. It's a fact of life like taxes, underpaying jobs, and the freshman fifteen. We talk when we're happy, when we're b...

I push send and wait for the confirmation. That's five texts in less than five hours, with no response in sight. Each message is more ...

Two months before my 20th birthday, I made a decision. I was going to get married before my 30th birthday. Although ten years is plenty of...

She was on the verge of tears for the second time in one night. He'd done it again and she couldn't understand why he treated her a...

I spent almost two hours of my evening plastered to You Tube. It's Nick at Nite's fault. Ashley was singing on Fresh Prince of Bel...

I need someone to talk to and just anyone won't do. I grab my phone and scroll through my contacts. Name after name rolls by, but none...

It doesn't take much. A single word usually does the trick. "Hello." It's enough for me. One hello, and all is forgive...

"I don't really connect with this story." "You're telling the reader what happened, instead of showing." "I...

It's late. The time has come to bury myself beneath low thread count cotton and billows of soft down. I'll sleep. But before conc...

I turn 26 today. I'm officially closer to 30 than to 20. Yesterday, my employer gave me an early birthday present....my annual review....

Job Opening Job Category: Relationship Type: Full time, plus overtime Salary: It's gonna cost ya Languages: Anything that sounds sexy...

During the question and answer session I conducted last month, one reader sent me a very interesting question via email. I didn't answe...

I didn't ask for this. My life was fine. I wasn't checking for, concerned about, or conscious of you. You came at me. You called...

Dear Short Bitch, I'm going to need you to do me a favor. You know that guy you're dating. The one whose navel you barely graze...

They're sitting in my suitcase, stained with hot sauce and soiled with sweat. I know they'll go in the next load of laundry, but af...