1 Routine I spend six minutes in the kitchen every morning, listless. Sometimes I hold a toothpick, a fork, a butter knife between my fingers. I pretend it's a cigarette. A nervous habit. Because I'm nervous, always nervous, and I never know why.

1 The Value of Loss Two best friends-one an agnostic, another a nun-in-training-are about to be separated. The journey is voluntary on one side, involuntary on the other... they will learn the true value of loss. A story of friendship, ambivalence, and wavering faith.

2LOVE Honestly? I am sorry. Sorry you built your life along the fault line. But I'll never say (I saw it coming).

3The Comedian Bleeds Backstage We share... similar mindsets and sad, sad smiles on the sidelines of a comedy with neon lights, credits flashing... you are the star of this charade...

7Obituary ...And all they've written upon this page, vague statistics of a man so much more... but ink never mattered that much to me.

6You Should Listen More Often To Silence See this trigger? I'm but a breath away and you won't say a word... and I am far too shy to tell you. So hurry, let's end this once and for all... in flames.

3Truth Because that's what they tell us at home, at work, and in school. Because those are the lies we swallow and vomit as truth.

6In Passing Spring, summer, autumn, winter... four seasons pass, trailing a love from beginning... to bitter end.

5The Only One I never thought it would come to this. Such pain, torment, anguish... but you thought you were the only one.

2Fuzzy Blue Blanket Such a silly little thing... and yet with you, for just a moment, it all seems right.