Tag: daughter

• Yelling Tinder

  Courtney hadn’t seen her mother in almost a year and a half. It’s the sacrifice you make when you move from one coast to the next to pursue a job, or in her case, a relationship. That whole thing had blown up in her face. two years after the big move from upstate New York…

  Dan Metzger

  August 22, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  breakfast, brother, california, date, dating, daughter, family, home, mom, mother, New York, relationships, romance, social media, Tinder, visit

• Fodder for Retrospect

  

  The limp expression on his face was nothing new, but it still tore gently into Monica’s chest each time she looked at her son. With each tear in the fabric of motherhood, she buried the urge to give up, to send him to another doctor, to admit to the nagging suspicion that she might be…

  Dan Metzger

  August 19, 2015

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  art, bipolar, bipolar disorder, city, college, communication, creative writing, daughter, depression, despair, driving, family, Fiction, hope, love, mental health, mental illness, mother, music, psychology, scene, son

• Fingertips

  A slight, dry wind flowed through the trees and under the sky, pressing black dresses against long legs, making hair frayed and frazzled. Morning commuters buzzed along the streets. Oblivious to the chaos beyond the windshield. Trapped in the awful moment, a day set aside for teardrops and sorrow, a girl got out of her mother’s…

  Dan Metzger

  October 2, 2012

  Fiction, Short Story

  daughter, death, father, Fiction, funeral, sister, suicide, tears