So that’s what it feels like to completely stop . . . And think for just a moment: What if they were mine? It wasn’t always like this They’re just a friend My mind won’t stop these thoughts I wish […]
Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, the 2017/2018 Acadia Reads pick, gives readers a glimpse into the struggles, mind, body, and soul of protagonist Elizabeth. The ways that Elizabeth views food and her body is abysmal. […]
I do not know how to put the happy back in my head how to stop the aching of my bones how to fill the hole between my lungs. I am a ship capsized by a sea of loneliness […]
All this happened both forever ago and about a half a second since, in a span of around thirty seconds. It seems like an unapproachable distance of separation though, since then, that last year of school I thought I […]
The smell of ash and winter clung to her stockings like the babies her husband prayed for. Itchy and tight, she couldn’t resist a scratch. Scrtttch. One chipped talon gave birth to a new run. “Ripped another pair?” Molly, her […]
A silent political fringe so low-key they’ve never actually been classified. Enter, the alt-nah… Typically, nobody would actually identify as being part of the alt-nah because politics is just…nah. Hillary being crooked? Nah. Trump being… I don’t have enough words […]
She was a flame. The hot red poker was always cracking down on my fingers as I reached to grab the black butt on the bullet of her favourite lipstick. The glossy silver of the tube, how smooth the strawberry […]
Feeling lost? Are you scared? I can tell something is on your mind. Look, it’s not that bad… Underneath the pain is a new light. Reacting negatively is not the right way. Endure the pain. I know right now it […]
Luck, is it more a part of a phrase or something that people actually believe in? Whether you avoid black cats and walking under ladders or break a mirror and don’t give it a second thought, you or someone you […]
With move-in day approaching I began to feel nervous. More than 1,400 miles from home and what was the purpose? I was starting my degree and my young adult life And Acadia embodied a future that was bright. When I […]
It’s finally done!! After four years The mud, blood, and tears have stopped I cannot wait to get home. I have lost a lot along the way Friends, Comrades, Sanity All for supposed “glory” I’m lucky to still be alive. […]
Today, the morning said to me, “go back to sleep” then it kissed me on the cheek and the rain played through my window like my favourite song until i was safe in my dreams. my bed was empty when […]