Category Archive: Scenes From a Break-Up

Take Time

Take Time

Sometimes the only thing for it is to contact an ex. “I’m about to walk into a bank,” he said. “Cool,” I replied. “So . …

 

Life Lesson #8

Life Lesson #8

The worst part, we realized, was that the very act of breaking up would be an intense experience that only the two of us could …

 

The Night I First Heard The Pixies

The Night I First Heard The Pixies

When I was sixteen I loved a boy who came up to my shoulders. We’d walk down the high school hallways holding hands, and to …

 

Life Lesson #7

Life Lesson #7

Thanksgivings! We’d sleep on the floor of your family’s Connecticut farm house on pieces of foam, heaps of blankets. We’d wake up to the little …

 

I Set Out One Night

I Set Out One Night

The rainy night I stumbled out of our apartment to get a cab to the nearest cheap hotel, I had forgotten what breaking up feels …