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Melissa In Words

A collection of short stories

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Fiction

Broken | The Bare Essentials Series

My darkest secret sank into the coffee mug as Ben wrapped his arms around me. My cheeks burned as the lump in my throat eruptedĀ into fiery sobs. Caroline is the only other person to know this secret. She knows the depth of it, I don’t want to relive the depths, not now, not ever. I […]

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Leaving time | The Bare Essentials Series

The silence has been deafening. I miss Caroline more than I can explain. Since the night I stormed out I haven’t heard a word from her nor have I attempted to contact her. The urge to apologize was real, but I didn’t want to explain it. I didn’t want to tell her that I was […]

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The Breakdown | (The Bare Essentials Series)

Telling Caroline about the therapist wasn’t the hardest part of our conversation, having her calm down was.  “Viv, how on earth? Isn’t that illegal?”  Well technically no, maybe? I mean I thought the incest thing was, but that turned out to be false so who knows.  “It was consensual. I just can’t see her again, […]

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Early Finish | (The Bare Essentials Series)

It happened in slow motion, my worst fear was literally unfolding right before my eyes. With a huge crash, I watched her head bounce off the floor as the room turned to stop and stare. My first thought was “shit that’s not good”, second thought was “thank god it wasn’t me”, third thought was “well […]

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Possibly Illegal | (The Bare Essential Series)

“Where have you been?” Caroline said with a flare of dramatics as if I stepped off the face of the earth. “Around.” “What’s that suppose to mean?” “I had a life crisis jeezĀ get off my back it’s not like you are my mother.” “I may not be, but your mother has been calling me for […]

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Forbidden Affair | (The Bare Essentials Series)

“Sometimes we need to escape, from life, emotions, an ex. But the big question is how to do this without being told I’m “dissociating” ( I actually used air quotes explaining this to my therapist).” I said with frustration wrapping my voice in a blanket. “Like honestly why can’t I just have a good wrestle […]

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Cherry Picker | (The Bare Essentials Series)

I feel empty, not in the sense of not having a person to satisfy me but in the sense that nothing seems to be making much sense in life. Goals & milestones are all part of life. I expected things out of my life by this age, mostly because I didn’t want to feel left […]

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