Stories tagged “therapist”
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Golden Mysteries
“Where do I begin?” Timidly, my voice rang all too loudly in the quiet space. “Begin with one.” The therapist wore a yellow tie. “No, zero is first.” I wished that tie would leave. “So begin with zero.” &...
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Refusal
“Please, dear, I love you to pieces…” “If you loved me that much then you’d agree with me: this is sick! It’s violating! I won’t do it! I won’t!” A mother sits in a therapist’s office, fit to ...
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The Closet Poet, Commissioned
“I was more reckless then, see. My days were saturated with cigarette smoke and my girlfriends’ perfume.” Trisha Macintosh, therapist extraordinaire, leaned back against her seat, smiling wryly as she tapped her lip with a pen. “...
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Journaling is a Pastime of Mine... Forced Upon Me
Monday, 22nd, Bedroom Frankie says I have to write in this book. I have told him, over and over, that he is NOT the boss of me, and therefore can NOT tell me what to do under any circumstances, but unfortunately Frankie has not quite grasped this conc...
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Catching Fire
Bill Jones was the epitome of metro-sexual, a young, good-looking, well-dressed, burgeoning therapist who heard what his patients were really saying as opposed to what they thought they were saying. He lowered his stylish frames, wondering if his words...