Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:15 pm

Subject: Seriously???

Were you in love with me??? Is it what you can’t have, or what you wanted then?????

Michael Inscoe March 2 at 11:19 pm

Re: Seriously???

i thought i was. i was, what, like 13 or 14, that’s why the phrase is in scare quotes, to poke fun at the idea

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:21pm

Re: Seriously???

Well, I was… Make a sweet poem out of that one. You were, was, and the one that always could have been.

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:23pm

Re: Seriously???

Why is that funny to you???

Michael Inscoe March 2 at 11:24pm

Re: Seriously???

why is what funny

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:24pm

Re: Seriously???

That I would love you???

Michael Inscoe March 2 at 11:25pm

Re: Seriously???

what are you talking about

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:26pm

Re: Seriously???

Phone number, for once in ten years??

Michael Inscoe March 2 at 11:26pm

Re: Seriously???

it’s not a good time

i feel like this is weird

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:28pm

Re: Seriously???

Why? Because of high school

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:28pm

Re: Seriously???

i don’t know what that means

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:30pm

Re: Seriously???

Because, we are old friends. I am married, but am faithful?

Michael Inscoe March 2 at 11:31pm

Re: Seriously???

i don’t understand what you’re trying to say

Rachel XXXXX March 2 at 11:33pm

Re: Seriously???

Phone number. Much easier… I want to hear your voice and we haven’t talked since before I lost my dad. ( Not that I will bring that up.) Just a reference.

Rachel XXXXX March 3, 2011 at 1:36am

Re: Seriously???

What are you so afraid of??? I can’t spit on you from Boston

Rachel XXXXX March 3, 2011 at 1:52am

Re: Seriously???

I am sorry, let me start over. I got hurt because you haven’t contacted me since shortly after my dad’s passing, I did love you, and even wondered if your reason for not loving me was if you were gay. Although you are in a relationship, amd I am married, and we can’t figure out a wat to make this work, all I can do is say, ” a COOKIE I went to the fair.”

Rachel XXXXX March 3, 2011 at 2:08am

Re: Seriously???

Were are you know?

Ana XXXXX March 3, 2011 at 11:09am

Subject: !!

Michael, you need to take Rachel’s name out of your comment. Thanks.

Rachel’s Mom

Michael Inscoe March 3, 2011 at 12:04pm

Re: !!

what comment

Ana XXXXX March 3, 2011 at 12:17pm

(no subject)

Michael, I see that all you did was block me.  I guess I should make myself more clear.  Please take Rachel’s name out of the paragraph and off of facebook and off of thetangential.com website.  Leave the story as is if you like, just use another name.  You can’t say things like that about real people.  When you put it in writing, it is slander.  If you are going to be a writer, you need to be aware of that and the laws pertaining to it.  Thanks.  Rachel’s Mom

Michael Inscoe March 3, 2011 at 12:46pm

Re: (no subject)

slander is spoken. libel is written.

i wrote a piece of fiction for an internet magazine. i chose several arbitrary first names to go into the piece. at certain points, when i felt it was needed in the prose, i created arbitrary last names (only one that i can remember now).

i have in no way or manner committed a crime. i won’t be held responsible for something that isn’t real; i have not in any manner defamed or even attempted to defame your daughter.

i blocked both you and rachel because i genuinely felt uneasy about the messages rachel was sending me, they were strangely vague and often incomprehensible. your message came at the end, when i was making the decision, to block or not to block, and i just felt it was going to be a lot less stressful for me if i blocked you both. i don’t appreciate feeling harassed by either of you, for whatever situation you seemed to have created in your heads

michael

-Photo and text by Michael Inscoe