D

…

As I came alive talking about a German woman I’d met at breakfast on a beach in Thailand, her eyes dimmed with everything she was afraid of.

After the break, Andre was giving his whole self, while D was closing her whole self. Love and hate were in the same room.

If I stopped telling the truth, she would make up her own truth. If I kept telling the truth, whether with my mouth or my gestures, she would absorb everything as betrayal. And if I stopped talking to avoid more damage, she kept asking me to tell her more.

…


Next
Next

A