Every Last Secret

by A.R. Torre

you had to act decisively and take the consequences. Grab life by the balls. My husband liked to tickle them with a feather and then wander away.

She probably had a granola bar to finish eating, or a lesbian wife in cargo pants who was waiting for her at a coffee shop, expectantly tapping her Mickey Mouse watch.

addicts were a very predictable breed who followed a standard pattern. Act. Enjoy. Regret. Push away. Yearn. Obsess. Justify. Obsess. Turn against those who keep them from their addiction. Obsess. Act.

I’d come a long way from that scratched kitchen table and slightly burned toast.