I come from Memphis, Memphis, TN, and it shames me to say, I love that shabby, backwater town. Twice it’s been named “Murder Capital of America." The crime rate, at times, surpasses Chicago’s, but I still love that city the way you love someone you can’t say you like. A brother, perhaps, or maybe a cousin. Someone you love just because they are blood. 

The way I feel about my hometown, my “relationship” with it, is practically the same as I have with my father. My dad loves me because I’m his daughter. I love him because he’s my dad. And because someone has to. He’s a moody, rigid and ill-tempered person, who operates, emotionally, on a five-year old’s level. It pains me to say that I’m much the same way; the difference is, I know it. I own it.

There are moments we walk in the brightest sunlight, when all points converge in a manner sublime. Then there are times when the moon and the stars refuse to align, and those moments haunt you

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams is a PC videogame that simulates the full experience of doing a jigsaw puzzle. There are many websites and games for the purpose of doing jigsaw puzzles -- what makes this one unique is that it renders the puzzle on a table in a room, and you can customize everything about the room; the materials and colors of the table, the walls, the furniture; you have a kitchen, a couch, a bedroom. The graphics are gorgeous with Unreal Engine 5 and it runs on under a gigabyte or

^{You know my reasons, you wish you had yours.
I wish you’d whisper them into my skin.-antigravpussy}

It was very late, or

very early

I didn't feel like I needed to know the time 

 the house was still, 

not silent,  but close to it

I could hear your footsteps upstairs

could hear the click of the light switch and the water in the sink