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Category: All About Love

Real short stories from the heart

All About Love

Passersby

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JOANN STEVELOS - What happens when an abandoned child grows up and one day buries her estranged father

Tagged abandonment, Compassion, Death, father, grief, Loneliness, metta meditation, parents1 Comment
All About Love

To Walk the Stones

March 4, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY MATTHEW WILLIS - What the stones at Kyoto's Jishu Jinja shrine can teach us and warn us about love in our lives

Tagged eros, games, Japan, Kyoto, love, philia, ritual, romance, shrine, stones, theaterLeave a comment
All About Love

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY KATE TAGAI - Love only needs an instant to unfurl, and no one knows this better than the mother of a child she only knew for a few days.

Tagged Death, grief, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood2 Comments
All About Love

The Curse

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHRIS JANSEN - The default state of all intelligent human beings is confusion. And what if ‘living your truth’ is just flinging yourself into another delusion?

Tagged confusion, delusion, sex, short story, therapy, truthLeave a comment
Between Writers
All About Love

Between Writers

November 18, 2021November 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY OCTAVIA ROSKO - Modern romance isn’t Shakespearean declarations of unrequited love, it’s mostly people who just don’t text back.

Tagged dating, love, romance, textingLeave a comment
Learning to Breathe again
All About Love

Learning How to Breathe Again

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY DANIELLE BAIN - I went through the five stages of grief to find my own sexuality in a world that was far from supportive

Tagged acceptance, anger, bargaining, denial, depression, gay love, grief, love, same sex relationshipsLeave a comment
All About Love

Malignant – A Love Story

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CYNDY CENDAGORTA As her friend fell sick while she fell in love, she realized we don't get to choose our miracles or our malignancies.

Tagged Death, friendship, illness, love, miracles, relationship, triangulation1 Comment
All About Love

On Being Plan B

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELIZABETH BLUE The car that had been broken into wasn't mine. It wasn't his, either. Technically it belonged to his girlfriend – his primary partner of fifteen years.

Tagged ambiguity, difficulty, friendship, Longing, love, monogamy, polyamory, relationship, togetherness, triangulationLeave a comment
All About Love

The River Cabin

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CAITE MCNEIL Making the decision to move back to Maine wasn't easy for a mother who wanted her daughter to love her home as much as she does.

Tagged california, childhood, forgetting, homecoming, learning, Maine, motherhood, nature, spiralLeave a comment
Around the Rings of Saturn
All About Love

Around the Rings of Saturn

August 19, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JAMES SNOW Falling in love with someone in a foreign city poses the question: is it the person or the place I’m really in love with?

Tagged Istanbul, love, music, relationship, romance, Travel, turkeyLeave a comment

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