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a series of choices
I’ve been thinking about fate a lot lately. I’m not sure if I have enough faith to believe in a destiny controlled by a higher power....
Becca Carroll
Jan 6, 20202 min read
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hospice
A grandiose bed in the middle of the living room, left no space for anything except the elephant of death and all the tubes and...
Becca Carroll
May 28, 20191 min read
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bare branches
what happened your love for me was supposed to be strong and unwavering you were the last leaf on the tree before winter and the breeze...
Becca Carroll
Mar 6, 20181 min read
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shaky ground
once I asked you, "do you think we are too similar?" you replied, "sometimes I think we are too different and too similar all at once."...
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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he wasn't gentle
my heart beat in your hands I begged silently "be gentle" blood dripped slowly down your wrists and rushed as your grip tightened on my...
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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nightmares (fiction)
A Snapchat notification popped up on my phone and when I glanced at it, I saw the time. It was 3:23 AM. Why am I always up so late? I was...
Becca Carroll
Dec 30, 20163 min read
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see you later, see you soon
It’s the afternoon of my last day in Dublin and I’m sitting at the airport drinking a Guinness and life is so so good in all the...
Becca Carroll
Dec 17, 20168 min read
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evanescence
“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth...
Becca Carroll
Nov 13, 20163 min read
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nicotine numbness
all in or all out the feelings are all consuming or there is a numb vacancy where my heart is supposed to be I will smoke a pack a day...
Becca Carroll
Nov 8, 20161 min read
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