A Smell

"Old wives tales and superstitions, the foretelling of her future. Old truths that only sustained ignorance. They'd point and stare, keeping their distance. Sending words that drew blood from her heart..."

"I caught a glimpse of him a thin gray shadow down a long corridor he was not the man I knew who carried me to bed at night and taught me how to use a hammer to help him roof the house was that so lon..."

"I close my eyes and see a pair of grease stained hands. The only part of you I can still picture. I forgot your face because I didn't want to remember the last words you spoke. but your hands, they ne..."

"To me she was old as old as you ever could be but the lines on her face gave her character and a dignity beyond anyone else I knew always in a dress and stockings even on wash day up to her elbows i..."

"foggy, hazy, murky brain but somehow I remember rain all the rest I know to be is what spectators told to me none of it can be real except the vodka, valium and benedryl at the bottom of a pool I dan..."

"I am a dreamer obsessed with possibilities, castles in the mind, hearts that never bleed I am a drifter wandering through life a muddle of time and place snapshots of circumstance I am a woman recep..."