Saloni Rao
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I Guess It's Time to Come Out Now
I feel like part of me is still scared to say the word… “bisexual.” It’s bizarre to write it down when it was a word I fled from for so long, a part of my identity I denied for the first eighteen years of my life. I told myself I just thought girls were really pretty. I honestly thought that. I allowed my life and my understanding of myself to be hindered for so long because of the heteronormative culture I was surrounded by growing up.
By Saloni Rao4 years ago in Pride
Betrayal
It was dusk at last. The crisp autumn air finally started to settle in as the strange man took a seat on the same park bench he sat on for the first time only three weeks ago; to him, it felt like an eternity. Leaving his car behind, he had to take a train and two buses to get to this side of town. It had been hours since he ate, but he lost his appetite and all sense of the word when he discovered what was going on behind that window. The same window he had now been staring at for two hours, patiently waiting for the two silhouettes he knew were inside to appear.
By Saloni Rao4 years ago in Fiction
Another Christmas Eve
It had been exactly sixteen minutes since she arrived. She counted the minutes the same way she counted the steps from the overly-crooked pear tree to the crisp wooden bench that mocked it. Deirdre’s letter said seven o’clock, Central Park Pond, in their usual spot. Still, sixteen minutes later, Cecilia was the only sign of life in sight. The trees whose fruit she admired mere months ago were now on the cusp of dying, with the ends of their lives being as unpredictable as they were every winter. Seventeen minutes.
By Saloni Rao4 years ago in Fiction
