Note: This is a series of vignettes based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
She pulled her hand back through the hole in the window and quickly began applying pressure to the deep gash on the inside of her wrist with a towel. She could hear the blood rushing [...]

Note: This is a series of vignettes based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
For the last six months she had been looking for an apartment in Seattle but was too scared to do anything about it. Things were bad. Really bad. There wasn’t a decision that would yield happy [...]

Note: This is a series of vignettes based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
She stubbed out her cigarette in the china plate she kept expressly for that purpose. The cramped apartment, filled with the remnants of her failed marriage, spoke volumes of her situation. Sadness still clung to her, [...]

I can still remember the moment — me standing outside of the locked door of my mother’s home wearing a pair of cropped jeans and a v-necked yellow sweater. My feet were bare. I kept staring at the doorknob until I heard my father’s voice say, “Get in the car, we’ll get this fixed tomorrow.” [...]