Everything was right, except for maybe me.

Later at recess, I lost my balance on the playground and dove right onto the blacktop.

Shell be back to normal in no time, everyone assured me.

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That was a woman no amount of chemo or radiation could ever bring back.

Later she told me hed shrugged and said, If no one else asks me, I guess.

4.I was 14 years old and somehow I felt everything and nothing at once.

Everything about him made me feel weightless and alive frighteningly so.

6.It was my 22nd birthday and things were going a little too well.

I smiled and laughed and drank and ignored the feeling gnawing deep down in my gut.

Everything about that day was perfect,right, except for maybe me.

7.He told me we wouldnt work out, not because of our feelings but because of the circumstances.

Id never known that kind of pain before, never felt something quite so acutely.

Where does it hurt?

she asked, pulling the Neosporin out of her bag, but I couldnt tell her.