The first week was hard for Venus. Perhaps the first two. She sat in the hurt, wanting to pick up the phone to reach out to him and make...

“I don’t know.” The words fled from her in a whisper. To use her voice felt like too much energy when she spent a lot of it trying to...

I look in the mirror and think oh how you've grown you once placed your happiness in palms that were not your own. Those years have gone...

Valerie peered down at the open text. Her eyes frantically took in the words, line by line, and no matter how much it was willed, she...