Archive - BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Essence Bonitaz

The Perfect Blooms

Twenty minutes into the long drive to surprise Daddy, flecks of snow dissolve on my windshield.

Feb 8 •

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January 2025

Ballroom lights dim then flicker as wedding guests recede to a shadowy corner away from the lifeless body on the floor, the body of my former soul mate.

Jan 3 •

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December 2024

Death Becomes Me

For six days I’ve existed, here and light years away, in limbo, silently watching over my body—that mess of bones beneath a thin white blanket in the…

Dec 5, 2024 •

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November 2024

It was hard, but I did it.

Nov 7, 2024 •

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June 2024

An excerpt from Ajha's Web: A Series

Jun 6, 2024 •

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9:46

May 2024

A letter to Essence

May 3, 2024 •

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April 2024

The elevator doors barely open onto the second floor intensive care unit, when Nora rushes to get off.

Apr 4, 2024 •

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February 2024

“Package for a Señorita Bonita Ysabela Martinez Galvan-Perez,” the delivery guy drones, handing me his pen for my signature.

Feb 9, 2024 •

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January 2024

I slide my key in the deadbolt, but the door is already unlocked.

Jan 6, 2024 •

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December 2023

Five-thirty PM snowflakes brighten the darkening Minneapolis skyline through Shoua’s eighteenth floor windows.

Dec 12, 2023 •

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November 2023

Love of a Lifetime

“I know it could work this time. Alejandra is the love of my life, but I can’t give her the extravagant things she has grown accustomed to,” he says…

Nov 4, 2023 •

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October 2023

I look up from my iPad in the ER family waiting room.

Oct 5, 2023 •

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