Love, Longing & Other Bad Decisions: Three Stories About Longing, Loss, and the Women Who Changed Me

Some women feel like peace. Some feel like temptation. And some arrive like storms with your name already in their mouth. In this raw, emotional, funny, heartbreaking, and painfully honest collection of interconnected stories, Zuri navigates the complicated women who changed her life forever. Echo loved softly - the kind of woman whose kindness could make loneliness feel seen for the first time. Simone was tension wrapped in grown-woman energy, dangerous conversations, lingering eye contact, and almosts that never fully disappeared. And then there was Keisha... loud, passionate, reckless, beautiful chaos disguised as love. Through emotional attachment, forbidden longing, grief, lust, heartbreak, confusion, spiritual conflict, and the desperate desire to feel chosen, Zuri begins unraveling the truth about the women she loved - and the broken places inside herself that loved them back. This is not a story about perfect relationships. It is a story about: unfinished love, emotional hunger, almost-kisses, toxic passion, softness, survival, and the women who leave fingerprints on your spirit permanently.