Empress Indignant

She must have always romanticized being a divorcee: a former love-believer turned cynic, rebel of familial norms, brandishing her scarlet...

She said I do not want to tell her to come back inside, her small heart already black and blue because he had better things to do. She...

She didn't fit in with the rich. The way they curdled at strangers and rose to greet the shameless. She'd rather serve than sit, knowing...

When she learned she grew less with life but swelled with stress. When they heard they sent gifts in boxes too big to fit what she'd...

You’ll find her on Sunset Blvd heavy eyes, lips ajar. She picks a carnation, white, from the neighbor's lawn. Her face lifts and falls,...

He prays like the hopeless, the way their fingers lace across a bottle or a waist—forgetful. His church sits somewhere close, close...