Lipgloss plastered, that way the smile stays stiff and the frown can’t transfer. Because really –can a person truly kiss cracked lips or love a breaking heart? Make-up caked faces hide the body’s imperfections, in a world where everyone still searches for “love everlasting”; You once told me, that before the altar is forever, then […]
April closed her eyes and waited. Count to ten, she thought. She could hear the man coming closer to her, and willed herself to relax. “Steady, April,” Derek said to her from the earpiece. “Steady.” April nodded, though she knew he couldn’t see, thought about opening her eyes, then let the thought fall away when […]
At the start of January 2012, I was still dating Micheal Hamburger. Which, at the time, I thought was incredible as he was my first long term relationship. And my first. New Year’s Eve I was to baby sit at his house because his mom wanted to go to a party with her husband. The […]
When I was younger I wrote poems for my mother. They weren’t anything fancy, nothing award winning or of literary sensation—just short, small, not-even-more-than-a-few-lines poems; the kind short enough to be haikus but just lacking that rhyming scheme. I was sitting on her custom designed Windows computer—customized to be an easy-to-use gadget for the blind […]
Mistah Kurtz-he dead A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without […]
After finally reading Meg Cabot’s Jinx, I was browsing my school library’s limited book selection, looking for something sweet, romantic, and Meg Cabot like. And the first book I found was What Happened to Goodbye, about a girl named Mclean Sweet, who made a habit of creating new persons for herself and then just disappearing, […]
So this one time out in Utah, I had come to visit my family for the holidays. While I was there, I hung out with my friend Julia. It was about ten o’ clock when we decided to take a walk. On our way back, we saw a green cart. It was one of those […]
Vampire Knight: Prose, Shorts, and Poetry chapter two: “Boundaries”, released now! Read a short synopsis below, then go check it out! Title: Boundaries Pairing: KanamexYuuki Genre: Shorts, Angst/Drama Rating: T+ Brief Summary: Lust, Desire, Longing. Feral and overpowering. Inescapable. Where will the line be drawn? Siblings, lovers–what are they really? Vampire Knight: Prose, Shorts, and […]
Yesterday a stranger stood next to me at the bus stop. He turned to me and tipped his hat ‘How are you?’ he asked me. I opened my mouth to reply, but just then the bus, she came. So the man just looked at me and smiled, ‘Just answer me tomorrow.’ -MAL
Lost in a Wonderland; Drug land. No Man’s Land. There’s an alter by my tombstone, The words ‘Lost Soul’ as my epitaph; Waiting stands the keeper of the Book of Life, yet I don’t need to look to know the angels etched my name away. Then Death —she dons a black wedding dress. I take […]
