Why do I feel like artists can be like Christians?

Ambiguous to sound profound

People getting wound up and let down

Making people learn phrases to praise things that don’t make sense

Why are people excited and winded?

They’re climbing stairs where no one knows where they’re going

Hearts racing and energy escaping

They are feeling wired but tired like one drink too many

Why are people so rest...

trying to write something good

trying to light that spark

that special sauce

I think to myself that this must have been the feeling they had that caused the Big Mac to be created

I’ve waited and waited to write for too long

Not realizing the sparks been hiding under my fingers

15 or more tries to write this prompt

Two survived this war that has been going on

Between me and my inner critic

I g...

“He’s right there!” He yelled turning his head back and forth. “Where?!” I shouted.

I was always pissed at him. Always angry. If my love for him was a scale, the fact that he was my brother was the only small stone keeping any feeling for him alive in my heart. My brother was always paranoid. We would be walking to the McDonald’s a mile from our house and he would look behind himself like a milli...