BY ÇILER İLHAN - What seems like a flame, passion or romance perhaps is actually love, emerging in various forms, shapes, and levels of existence. If you believe in it.
Category: All About Love
Real short stories from the heart
Songbird Birdsong
BY PAMELA AYO YETUNDE - A retelling of the Buddhist legend of Kisa Gotami, bereaved mother Keisha comes to a Buddhist Monastery for guidance.
Passersby
BY JOANN STEVELOS - What happens when an abandoned child grows up and one day buries her estranged father
To Walk the Stones
BY MATTHEW WILLIS - What the stones at Kyoto's Jishu Jinja shrine can teach us and warn us about love in our lives
A Love Letter to Nathaniel
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.
The Curse
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?
Between Writers
BY OCTAVIA ROSKO - Modern romance isn’t Shakespearean declarations of unrequited love, it’s mostly people who just don’t text back.
Learning How to Breathe Again
BY DANIELLE BAIN - I went through the five stages of grief to find my own sexuality in a world that was far from supportive
Malignant – A Love Story
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.
On Being Plan B
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.