Discretionary Love

SUBS OPEN. Your words, your relationships, your love. New pieces monthly! Next sub period: JUNE 1st- JUNE 15th.

[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

April’s story release is brought to you by Dolo Diaz, @mk_kuol14, K.Zharkovna, @KenWetherington, Sophia McGovern, @ospreysview, Christina Brannon, Swetha Amit, Matthew Sisson, @ HalfTheLobster, Dale Scherfling… (1/2)

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Hey yall,

So, it looks like we have 27 stories for tomorrow night’s story release. 🤗 Thank you all so much for taking the time to submit your work!

[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

Hey yall,

The last handful of emails will be sent out tonight! If you’re still waiting, don’t worry we didn’t forget about you.

Subs are now open if you’re ready to submit for June. 😏

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The first round of responses have gone out. If you have yet to hear back, check your email tomorrow night.

🤍

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We talk about their new baby. Having our own. The
past. Your muscles tense, you breathe erratically, and I am too tired to fix your sad eyes.

"The path by the river"— Sophia McGovern
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

Morning,

Responses for May’s story release will go out over the weekend. 🤍

[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

Evenings should always be dewy, you said,
and you wore the words like vestments
that clothed your thought from me.

"Waiting for the White Trout"— Kataryna Zharkovna
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

That summer taught me something I didn’t know I needed to learn: that wanting and patience can live in the same body at the same time if you’re brave enough.

"Me and Ardie"— Dale Scherfling
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

& see the soul before
the color of their eyes,
embrace to say I hope
this will last
until next time,
rather than a procedural
goodbye,
how we sometimes cry
for the pain of strangers
as if we were meant to cry
for everyone.

"The Whole Point"— Brandon Shane
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

Some dreams end up
stacked beside canned goods.

He had them too—
crumpled drafts,
ink pressed into the shape of wanting.

You swallowed them whole.

Now they surface—
tonsil stones,
hard, legible...

"Cardigan Folklore"— Furkan Pinar
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

"I slid through some door cracks that might not have been there for her and the friend I left behind that day. I moved to the city, went to college, and made friends that uplifted me."

"The Occasionnal Tugs of a Past Life"— Gabriel Sims
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[Jess @TheFrelow]

If you have a library card, your library probably has an app so you can listen to audiobooks for free.

[Swetha Amit @AmitSwetha0627]

A new flash up in @LovesDiscretion thank you editors! https://t.co/4CLzT8LGdZ

[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

Good morning,

Subs close for May’s story release in two days!

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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

I don’t regret loving you. I regret how carefully I did it.
How I kept it contained, as if exposure would ruin it, not realizing that containment was already a kind of ruin. Love isn’t preserved by silence.

"Drafts I Never Sent"— Kumar Sen
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

By now, Pamela understood that this increasingly odd date would not be about her. She should have been annoyed. Despite herself, she was drawn to Sébastien’s tales of the near-mythic woman who had been his wife.

"Memories of Hatsue"— Kenneth N. Margolin
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

I will look both ways,
have hope indented around my eyes & cheeks & forehead.
Is there a way to keep eyes open all the time,
I look at my dream and my dream looks back at me
I willed the world to be and finally it bent.

"I really can't"— Christina Brannon
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

I wanna be the raindrop that soaked the ground under your feet that holds you. I wanna be the raindrop that trickled into your well & awaits your call.

"I wanna be your glass of water"— Sarah Wolfe
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

We were miles away from our condo in the city—a place that echoed our high-pitched voices shouting names, breaking plates and glasses, and throwing books. The floors and walls had begun to crack.

"One More Chance"— Swetha Amit
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[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

To the happy mom, overwhelmed mom, working mom, mom gone too soon, rainbow mom, tired mom, mom to be, bonus mom, need 1 more hour mom, anxious mom, caring mom, everywhere mom, depressed mom, stay at home mom, had to be their own mom, make it happen mom...

Happy Mother's Day.

[Discretionary Love @LovesDiscretion]

i drink to you
to those lips that only lustered
with the silliness of your half truths
to those eyes that only twinkled
with the deadness of your heart

"last toast"— @mk_kuol14
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