If you are new to this blog series, please start here: Dreadless: An Introduction **Note: If you’ve been following this story so far, you’ll want to know that I have belatedly changed my boyfriend’s name to Ace in order to protect his identity.** January, 2013. The summer before, I had […]
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If you are new to this blog series, please start here: Dreadless: An Introduction. It was a cool June day, several months after I had realized that the only way to break the cycle was to stop avoiding the issue of learning how to drive. I had been out for […]
If you are new to this blog series, please start here: Dreadless: An Introduction. For the millionth time, I pulled up beside a parked car until my bumper was parallel. I put the car in reverse and started backing, turning the wheel to maneuver our Subaru into place. I carefully […]
If you are new to this series, please start here: Dreadless: An Introduction. My hands gripped the wheel of the ’87 AMC Spirit and my heart was in my throat as I pulled out of the parking lot onto a busy street in the middle of a strip mall. My […]
If you are new to this blog series, please start here: Dreadless: An Introduction. The empty three gallon bucket challenged me from across the wide expanse of my living room. Beside me stood an identical bucket, full of bright green tennis balls. I gripped one ball in my hand and flung it […]
If you are new to this blog series, please begin here: Dreadless: An Introduction. Daylight is growing around me as two lanes transform into four and the evergreens of Snohomish County fade into a concrete jungle of buildings and noise barriers. On a freeway where a moment before I was cruising […]