And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.View Gallery: Photos: 'Winter Wonders' holiday lights at Boerner Botanical Gardens You're turning over your whole life to him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him they don't wrap him up. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right - that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. “You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless.

She is currently a Senior Editor with City Owl Press.Ī diehard New Orleans Saints fan, Tee lives with her family in Southeast Louisiana. With Heather McCorkle, Tee co-founded the #WritersRoad chat on Twitter.Ī SFWA and Codex member, Tee's flash fiction has appeared in various anthologies and, as Eden Butler, she has published over twenty best selling Paranormal and Contemporary romance novels, many of which have been featured in USA Today and star reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. Tucker, Hilaria Alexander, Tee Morris, Pip Ballentine, Christine Fonseca, Scott Wilbanks, Chelle Bliss and RITA winner, Carolyn Crane. Tee has previously edited for Phoebe North, K.A. She has studied under Edgar nominee Tim Gautreaux, Booksense Pick novelist Bev Marshall and Nebula award winner Cat Rambo. She is curren Tee Tate received a Master of Arts in English from Southeastern Louisiana University. A SFWA and Codex member, Tee's flash fiction has appeared in various anthologies and, as Eden Butler, she has published over twenty best selling Paranormal and Contemporary romance novels, many of which have been featured in USA Today and star reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly.

With Heather McCorkle, Tee co-founded the #WritersRoad chat on Twitter. Tee Tate received a Master of Arts in English from Southeastern Louisiana University.

Winter Wonders by Alexandra Shostak