XOXO, Z A I N 🩵

She/Her…Hopelessly romantic, poetically rejected, ADHD infested 💘 (You should go follow: Mialoo, Hollow Oaks, M., Your Local Crayon 🖍️ & MusefulHeart🫀) Obsessed with THG 🔥🏹 and villains and their redemption. Anti-heroes rock. Marvel rocks! 💕

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XOXO, Z A I N 🩵

https://werdsmith.com/xoxozain

219

Writings

150

Followers

196

Following

Is Better Worth It?

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2 min read

**TW: reflection on a friend’s successful ****_attempt_**__

_“Death is just finally resting_.”

It’s a little ironic, that _you_ told me that.

Seeing as days ago,

that bridge was your last location.

Your momma called me,

she knew I was your last chance.

Dang, I never knew how mad

a momma could get,

I’m hurting enough,

why don’t you just put your hands up?

That’ll hurt less.

Oh my god, m...

Poetry

Last Time She Texted

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1 min read

I expected her to text,

as she always does.

She sent me a message,

I’m afraid to say I didn’t reply,

I was busy reading,

with my trained little eyes.

I was reading a novel

about someone who’s time

was slowly coming to an end.

And, wow, here’s the part

where I wrecked my best friend…

When I didn’t reply,

I was reading a stupid book,

because I was a teenager

I expected her to complain

about a boy or...

Poetry

Teacher, Teacher, Teenage Girls

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2 min read

[gender equality poem- if you decide to hate, well, that’s a you problem, this is slam poetry, kinda meant to be spoken aloud]

Teacher, teacher calls out to you,

looking at your shirt, “I can see

your shoulders, so can the boys.”

So? I cover up? I’m not one of their toys!

What if it’s hot outside? What if I’m burning?

So, I cover up, just to keep their eyes from turning?

Teacher, teacher, don’t ...

Poetry

…

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1 min read

I’m aware my writing in the application was uneven. By that, I mean it was formal 15% of the time, and the other 85%, it was just… me. I thought it was an epic, honest, and “raw” way to tell my story, voice my opinion-

I guess it wasn’t good enough. I’m not good enough- huh? It was a school thing, anyways, and of course, schools degrade people. Specifically those who aren’t white and of the male...

Drama

The Fog

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1 min read

We’re back in Mississippi,

but I’ve never wanted to be here.

There’s rain everywhere,

and I feel like I’m drowning in the ocean.

A hurricane, or even a tropical storm,

rages around me, but I’m in the eye,

so, I have to be fine, isn’t that right?

Because I’m not being destroyed.

But the eye of the storm can be worse,

because you never know when the walls

will crumble and send you into your demise...

Poetry

Letters I Will Never Send

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3 min read

Dear T,

I only became friends with you this year, but dang- you destroyed me. You didn’t mean to. I know you didn’t. You still act like my friend, and that’s far worse than the ghosting you’ve been doing just the same. This year, I’ve questioned my friendship with you a multitude of times; it’s not even funny. And yet, I always manage to walk over to you, try to talk to you- even though you shut ...

Drama

now i have you

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1 min read

Uh- metaphorical twist on prompt… warning: SH.

“I never had friends, but now I have you,” I mumbled with a small smile, glancing up from beneath my eyelashes.

The girls grinned in response, Sadie throwing her pillow at me with a, “You always will,” and Danny laughing with a, “No matter what.”

They always finished each other’s sentences.

I wanted to be a part of that, and I guess I did what...

Drama

Wildfire.

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1 min read

I wanted to be normal,

I wanted it so bad,

I wanted to be wind in Oklahoma,

the soda in drive-thru,

the movies in the theater,

the red-dirt in the country.

But I was like red dirt

in Colorado & Michigan,

wind in Toronto, Canada.

Like ice cream in the winter,

hot cocoa in the summer.

I wanted to be normal,

so much, that if desires

were dull flames, barely lit,

I would still be a wildfire.

Just...

Poetry

Drama

“WDYT” Dialogue Exchange

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1 min read

This is a dialogue exchange for a story I’m working on. [Story tagline: “Nobody ever thought ‘second chances’ would start a war. Everyone was wrong. _So_ wrong.”]

D -> (Sebastian) Denver Hyde

M -> Matin Ripley

H -> Harlow Elyse

D: “We’re a group, we’re _Chancers_. Are you?”

M: “I’m- I’m not quite sure. I heard about this just yesterday-”

D: “Being a Chancer is a blood pact. If you don’t int...

Drama

She & He

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1 min read

She punched the bag. _Hard_.

After a class workout, everyone had been assigned to the punching bags, and yet…

She had no reaction.

She usually did.

Her face was usually red, her breathing usually haywire. She usually complained to her friends in a stage whisper.

But she didn’t.

Her eyes were focused on the bag.

Her punches grew weaker, weaker, and weaker, and when she was done, her eyes wer...

Drama

Romance