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I would have liked a chance to decide if I loved you outside of an emergency,But everything got pushed forward,The calendar came for us, bearing its claws,With sudden weddings and far more sudden funerals.With visa expiration dates and, I knew when I met you that your father was dying,But we were both under the impression……
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Perhaps it would be fitting to start with “Once upon a time…” seeing as, for the moment, I feel an awful lot like a goddamn princess. It’s hard to trust anything these days, and only time will tell, but for now I am smitten. I keep fearing the rug will be pulled out from under……
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The past few months have been some of the saddest I’ve had, and the past few weeks more so. I have learned that I am an unreliable narrator of my own life, because every time I deign to allow a speck of hope that something will go right, it doesn’t. Every time I am certain……
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Come here, loverboy, stomp on my heart.
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Things are strange these days. Everyone, it seems, wants to tie me up. My stomach has been in knots. My wrists remain unbruised, and I am bound to no one. I have so few promises to keep, and nothing keeping me here. I’ve been thinking about escaping. I should go somewhere warm, somewhere with an……
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Tonight was the first time I felt actually jealous about the Redhead. Known him a while, built a friendly love, and then we built a friendly-love-and-then-some. I don’t know, I chew my thumbnail when I think about him. I don’t know, I smile when I think about him. I don’t know, my dad caught me……
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It’s a good thing we don’t live in the same city, because if we did I would be ringing your doorbell right now. I know you still live with her, that you‘ve been trading weeks on the couch. That you have been texting me for months now. I know you have the keys to a……
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Alessandra Ranelli 
Agreed – loved the NYT post. (An Austrian in NYC, who is thinking about his long-lost love, who is in Vienna)
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Your NYT piece was wonderful. Looking forward to reading your first novel.
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