Tag: heartbreak

  • Skim Milk and Doorknobs – Short Story by L. Breen

    Skim Milk and Doorknobs – Short Story by L. Breen

    Writer’s Note: An accomplished and eloquent teacher told me that if something is worth writing, it is worth writing until you perfect it, until you believe the story as you believe your own memories. Stories, she said, are where the energy lives inside of us, and our job as writers is to find where that…

  • Styrofoam – Short Story by L. Breen

    Styrofoam – Short Story by L. Breen

    She prefers paper cups to Styrofoam. Styrofoam is too kind on the hands. She always thinks that to hold a Styrofoam cup feels safe, and therefore the liquid inside is at perfect drinking temperature. Only after the initial sip and burnt tongue does she ever find out otherwise. She had done that very thing just…