friendship | Elyse Hughes Writer

Mar 5, 20222 min read

Missing You

Mmmmm, I miss you Chad. The delicious ache of aged loss swelled inside me. How many years had it been now? — since he’d gone. Who else...

Dec 5, 20218 min read

Why Being Self-Absorbed Is Essential To Self-Caring

Someone recently brought to my attention that there’s a difference between self-care and being self-absorbed. As if I didn’t know, but...

Nov 7, 20215 min read

The Great Big Wall (V of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

I hadn’t taken into account how wrong I would feel. For all the things I said, or didn’t. I didn’t feel guilty for the things she wanted...

Oct 29, 20215 min read

Over It Then In It (IV of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

I had a dream that she was telling me off. Then telling me off some more. Securing the last word, yet again. Then the scenery changed to...

Oct 14, 20213 min read

A New Friend?

For most of my life, friends had come to me. They were just there, in the seat next to me in class, building on banter at countless jobs,...

Sep 18, 20213 min read

The Fallout (II of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

Why does the shit stick? Not the times we listened with our heart wide open to catch the other’s pain . . . stopped everything to be...

Aug 22, 20215 min read

It Was Like A Death (I of V in the Friend Breakup Series)

It hurt to think of her, memory still bloated and raw with pain . . . regret. It was like a death, our breakup. I attempted to soften it...