out-of-the-darkness

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are different, separate, broken. Then one day the mad idea escapes the asylum. Most times it__ unplanned. It just tumbles out on the lap of the man sitting next to us on the bus, or it slips sideways into a conversation on line at the Trader Joe__ or it falls out at the kitchen table when your neighbor comes to pick up her cat. And there is a terrifying moment when it first hits the light of day, where we think, __oly mother of God! What have I done? How could I have been to casual with my crazy ways?__ut the man on the bus just smiles and nods his head, and the casher takes a moment to look us in the eye and the neighbor sits for a cup of tea and together we move into some new agreements that we are all in fact crazy and it__ so much nicer to be out of the closet with it all.