Is it a sin to fall too soon? when that person made you swoon Is it a sin to fall too hard? When those hormones catch you off guard? Is love a narcotic? To merely drive you a craze To […]
The concept of “Tomorrow” implies the event of sunrise and sunset. However, the sun doesn’t rise nor set, the earth rotates alternately and elliptically by its axis thus creating the illusions of these events, with seasons as a bonus depending […]
Fingers graze translucent raised skin, while shame buries in my twisting gut. Eyes flicker outwards, a pink ribbon pinned on a bag. The acute scream of a toddler calls out. It brings a memory – Hospital […]
I did it to feel alive – the air is heavy and wet a humid paradise. Tendrils of forsythia shudder in the breeze golden leaves and pink petals leech into the sky. There is always a stranger involved – […]
I’ve never seen God, but my brother did once. In 2007, hopelessly lost on a hiking trail in northern France, he stumbled across a field of matted grass. A train was passing through the field. He watched the windows of […]
Each step is purposeful and calculated. The forest seems to remember me, almost as much as I remember her. But the mountain does not, his rocks quake underneath my feet as […]
There was once a boy named Cliffton, who was the littlest among four siblings but the biggest among the neighborhood kids. Cliff loved his little friends, but he hardly ever saw them; his curfew was sundown, even on the dreamiest […]
I blacked out for several hours then woke up in the back of a truck. Hands and arms were tied. Felt around my back pocket. The ring was gone. Middle-aged man was walking over. Man knelt down. “Hello, Ezra.” “Mgggmmm.” […]
Who has seen the wind as it travels through the sky for nether I nor you, can ever see it fly yet trees and flowers sing the wind, has passed us by and yet we hunt and search over all […]
Why do stars become supernova? Do they do so because they tire? The eons of burning weighing them down. Or is it their love that causes them to swell. To shine brighter Up there, in the firmament. Out, out. The […]
Edward Cullen wasn’t a real vampire. You see, real vampires don’t sparkle in the sun. No, real vampires hide in the dark, they grow in the dark, and charmingly convince you to follow them into it. You see, real vampires […]