Abandonment

278 words by 2 writers in Bainbridge Island & Bend

Stories filed under Abandonment

Pain, abandonment, adopted

The joy of seeing your bio mom for the first time, and the pain.

by Elena Hazzard

Bend — I held the phone in my hand, her voice coming in over the speakers in crackly silence. “Hello?” She asked. My voice wavered. “Hi, this is Elena.” I said, and she gasped. We hadn’t talked for ten years...

desert, girls, abandonment

Forfeiture

by rebel green

Bainbridge island — A gas tank nearing empty and disdain that can’t be controlled, you fold Pulled by the desert’s cold into a bar saturated with stovetop grease Your expertise is in affliction and in marrow of the dis...

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