The Hudson River pulled me under and I was losing my strength, I was gasping for air and it felt like a tornado of water was swallowing me. "Today I die." It happens so quickly. I was there in the middle of the river, fighting against a force so powerful, I could not have imagined … Continue reading The summer I thought I was dead
Author: Alice Hausmann
Twenty years
I was lying on my mattress in the middle of the work day. I was in the middle of an empty house. I could not back out of the wedding now. Who says yes to a marriage proposal because they are afraid to say no? We had bought this house together. That was twenty years … Continue reading Twenty years
When have I been?
there was something wrong, and for me to survive, that something had to be my fault. there had to be a good reason. there is no other choice for a child. "Old times. Not a bit. There aren't any old times. When times are gone, they're not old, they're dead. There aren't any times but new … Continue reading When have I been?
How do you free yourself without making yourself so, so tiny?