Alecia Dionne

Right vs. Right Now

Why do women always want unavailable men? This question, regaled at me as a statement, were the last words I heard with a certainty, as both my temperature and siren song began to rise within. I don’t remember how the rest of that conversation went, only that it didn’t go on for much longer. I inhaled slowly, deeply; exhaling a low breath of ‘serenity now,’ a long-practiced technique that both helps to calm me and brings a smile to my face in the way that cherished sitcoms from my youth usually do.