Desiree Roundtree

Desiree Roundtree was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY where she still lives with her husband and daughter. By day she is a slayer of numbers, by night a lover of words. She was diagnosed with Lupus in 2012, which prompted her to write all the things she has always wanted to write.

The Girl and the Field

I walk into his office; the name in brass on the door reads Dr. Adam Reagan. I sit on the small plush chair and pull my feet under me, my warm mug of tea in my hands. He smiles when I slide into the seat and sigh. He thinks he is breaking me but there is no way I can allow that to happen, not after everything I think I have been through. “Where do I begin,” I say, I don’t mean it to sound sarcastic but to my ears the words sound sharp like tiny pieces of glass in my mouth.