Kay Husnick

Joined December 2017

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You Never Asked. Top Story - July 2024.
I don't know when I decided I had to choose between expecting nothing and expecting disappointment. Every time, for the longest time, I chose to expect you to show up for me, but I guess I learned the outcome would never be what I wanted.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Before Sunrise
You packed your things and waited for morning to start the long drive back home and away from the life we made, but you stood there in front
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
The Workshop
"We don't use that word here," Patty says. "You don't use—" "No," she stops me. "We don't even use the letter." "Why?" A confused look crosses my face. "How does that even work?"
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Fiction
A Clean Break
In the end, I can't help but wonder, How did you move on so quickly? How did you pack up your bags and walk away like that,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Venom
Venom seeped out of your mouth that night. My own moved faster than my brain. Three words and it was over, words I do not recall
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Pleading
I never wanted to say goodbye to this, us; you were everything. I cry myself to sleep, and you're sleeping on the couch.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Before You
Before you, I only knew what I didn't want listed the things I couldn't do again walked away with ease picked up on a tone or phrase or one slightly dismissive shrug, and I was out,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Blackout Poetry
When I worked in a used bookstore a few years ago, I collected trashed clearance items with permission from my manager. As books were cleared off shelves after a year or so unsold, I chucked title after title into dumpsters out back.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Back Then
Back then, I kept job alerts set for Ohio emails with new listings in my industry sent right to my inbox so we could move home
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
The Fairytale of Us
Once upon a time, you were my everything my day, my night, my dreams, the air in my lungs, the warmth in my bed I told myself fairytales of us
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Would You Change Anything
If you could go back, would you change anything? I wouldn't change a thing Sometimes, I think about what might be different
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Cord Cutting Ritual. Top Story - June 2024.
The spellbooks say to sever a bond I need candles and string my mother says I need a lawyer the bank says I need your signature or you need mine
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets