Essays: Losing love 15 Articles

by Vanessa Arden

I carried my ice cream to the aluminum picnic table like a body carries its head to the guillotine. The doo-dads on my jeans pockets made little zinging noises as I situated myself on the tabletop, my feet resting on the ...read more

by Danielle Lewis

Lately it seems that some of the people closest to me are bound and determined to torture themselves . I sit in the back-round and watch as the nerves bind them .. tighter and tighter . I listen as they scream and beg fo...read more

by Sonia Ordoyne

Before I can even address the death of love, I must first present my definition of love. This is in itself a monumental undertaking. Love is one of those subjective truths, there is no absolute. Love will be many differ...read more

by Stephie

I met Doug when I was a thirteen-year-old pre-pubescent girl. I had braces on my teeth, pimples on my chin, could have stood to lose ten pounds and was not allowed to have a boyfriend until I was 16. He had glasses on his ...read more

by Hammoudi Abdelwahab

LOVE VERSUS HATRED 1- LOVE Men have all time sung love because, to humans, it remains an inaccessible and eternal thing. Love is a perpetual quest. But, there is an inherent strange aspect in love: Lov...read more

by Aimee Pavlik

How innocent I was then, kneeling on the floor touching a man for the first time like that. Feeling so young, so in awe, so alive in doing something I'd never done. It was so easy to take the time, kissing you, feeling y...read more

by K.G. Rogers

Dear Love, You were my dream, my hope and my joy. You were my youth and my fearlessness. Somehow I lost the power, the magic, and secrets you gave me. Somehow you were my fairy tale and my birthday wish on every birthd...read more

by Keri Withington

'You have always been careless with your possessions. Lost more wallets, sunglasses, and jackets than I can remember. An endearing lack of concern about material things. But now you seem to have mislaid us. Such bad timing...read more

by Lael Clapp

There have been so many "you's". How can I discover which you are? There have been so many moments of total clarity followed by giant bursts of forever. How do I know what is real? I look around me and I don't recogniz...read more

by Ashley Keenan

The Lamentation I found myself in your city. I found myself in the company of your mother and she had aged since my last visit. Your father had shaven his mustache, and I was no longer afraid of his company, his...read more

by Darin Kowallis

The cool sand squished between his toes as the waves of cold salt water washed back and forth. The fresh salt air refreshed his nose but made his heart sink farther and farther into despair. The water seemed to stretch b...read more

by Donna Buglione

I got her when I was 24 years old. I still lived at home with my parents and oh how I begged them to let me get her. She lived with another family for the first 7 months of her life. But someone was allergicto what I'm ...read more

by Ian Black

Everything seemed so completely messed up on my life, that I wanted nothing more than for it all just to cease from my memory! There was always so much anger, shouting, pointless arguments raging between distressed parents...read more

by Andrea Haynes

Though I could only think of you, I found myself lost in what some might call a love triangle only this one was hell. From the time I was old enough to figure out and understand what love was you were that person who I dev...read more

by Jenny Jimenez

Smilling with a heartache I cry at night.... I smile by day.... And I Thank God I fell in love.... Fell in love with a man who is presently with someone else.... There are just things that mig...read more