I had asked to go with him, but he told me he needed to do it alone, going on and on about growing into himself, wanting to fully become the man he was meant to be so that he could do right by me, and I had told him he was everything, yet my protests did not matter.
Author
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Lauren Davis is the author of Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press), and When I Drowned (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), and the chapbooks Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), and The Missing Ones (Winter Texts). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Winner of the Landing Zone Magazine‘s Flash Fiction Contest, Davis lives on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorian seaport community.