Year one: get swept away.
Year two: design, shop, decorate.
Year three? charge up credit card…
fix, fix, fix,
pay, pay, pay.
And–
finalize decor, maybe.
Year one: get swept away.
Year two: design, shop, decorate.
Year three? charge up credit card…
fix, fix, fix,
pay, pay, pay.
And–
finalize decor, maybe.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.





For a month you freed me of— but now I am the center of the whirlpool, the very current my mother warned me of as
Stand, greet, smile, shake, sit ask, chat, laugh, connect, advise suggest, nod, bye bye.

All the “should haves” pile up: one on top of the other and blind my vision. I stare at the cards I’ve been dealt, my