As he stared into her eyes, the silence seemed to creep up onto them. It hung there, sitting with them. Buzz. Buzz. Her phone. Her parents must have walked into her room where she was supposed to be sleeping. She […]
Daily archives: January 23, 2017
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Out of focus save for a lock of chestnut hair, my father wholly in shadow and his hands around my chest. My mother watching but even then consumed by her own darkness. It’s my second birthday, and my father is […]
Love is one of the earliest concepts I remember being introduced to. It was the unbreakable connection between family. You could fight all you wanted and the love stayed strong. I never understood that love; it never seemed as strong […]
My darling, with her clothes littered on a floor painted orange. The windows did not come prepared. Cactus on a stool, and a stack of our vinyls (we bought them in a far away fair). The nights are force with […]
After years of intense pain, dramatic weight gain, and missed periods, I sat in the doctor’s office for what seemed like the billionth time trying to explain my symptoms to her. “It sounds like you have polycystic ovarian syndrome,” she […]
Hair removal is something that many men and women, myself included, strive to perfect. Whether it is through the drawn blood of shaving, expensive laser treatment, or painful wax pulling, we are all after that chic bald look. Some do […]
The controversy of team names has been a hot topic in the world of sports as of late, and all the attention being brought to the topic has me thinking: are these team names controversial, or are activists just bringing […]
“Why use Social Media? Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin Karen* (name changed), sat at her computer scrolling through her Facebook feed and watching Netflix when she […]
During the summer of 2016, the Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although nearly half of the 19 world records broken that year were by women, the female athletes were treated to headlines like (famously), “‘Wife of […]
Humans are inherently selfish. The only reason students volunteer is to have something nice to look at on their résumés in the hopes that future employers will think that they are well-rounded individuals and should be hired. That statement alone […]
“New Year, new me,” or so the expression goes. You’ve made a resolution and this time you’ve sworn to see it through. But as the new semester starts and the assignments start rolling in, that today’s the day mentality starts […]