The Breaking Duet

I didn’t run.I want that on the record. Blake Moore detonated a bomb in the middle of my life and disappeared to a war zone, Reid chose his best friend over me every single time it mattered, and I’m still here.Same town. Same job. Same apartment I picked when I decided, for the first time in thirty-two years, to stay...

I’ve been a travel nurse for a decade. I’m really, really good at leaving.But at thirty-two, I’m tired of being a ghost in other people’s lives. So I do something crazy. Crazy for me at least. I take a permanent job in Oregon. I buy throw pillows. Plural.I have a fiddle leaf fig I talk to like it’s a patient. Then...