allen

🇨🇳+🇺🇸/🇨🇦any pronouns. HSPVA creative writing dept. been writing for four years since fifth grade. age approx 14 years. my older writing is shit so watch out. i love overusing hyphens and semicolons. if you've seen my work on ao3 no you haven't

allen

hey hey winter boy

allen

1 min read

hey, hey

winter boy

crack your golden teeth on these southern bones

don’t you think it’s more impressive that i ain’t ever seen snow,

yet i can skate just as good as you?

i grown up on rough ice,

in a sketchy town

not your perfect new york lakes

or your shiny boston rinks,

with a cop at every corner.

i was green light-up wheels on black asphalt,

fake jersey that i made myself held...

Poetry

are you listening to me?

allen

2 min read

to the new kid

don’t make friends with the big kids, 7th graders will do; if you have friends in the locker room, hold on to that connection for dear life; if someone finds a dead animal out on the soccer field, tattle like you’re in kindergarten because that animal will end up in places it absolutely should not be; if you have missing work, just lie, the teachers trust you more than they trust t...

Poetry

what did you want me to be?

allen

1 min read

you raised my brother with baseball, soccer, fencing

now he works in business and tech

you raised me with tutus and tiaras and little pink dresses

and somehow

some way

i fell in love with the meanest sport on the planet

and i like getting beat to shit for fun

what does that tell you,

dad?

yeah,

i was never my father's daughter....

Poetry

why i write

allen

1 min read

(ntp)

i write for there are worlds that would not exist without me

and i write for there once was a world that did exist without me

and i often wish for a time that i never knew...

Poetry

DON’T BARK IF YOU WON’T BITE

allen

1 min read

EMPATHY.

A WEAKNESS?

I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL,

I KNOW HOW YOU FIGHT,

BUT I’M ALL BARK

TOO SCARED TO BITE....

Poetry

Go, Stay, Fuck it, We'll Do it Your Way

allen

2 min read

[Not the exact prompt. This was my first assignment for my Intro to Fiction class at PVA, so I ran with it. And, if you know who these characters really are(Tyson and Sergei are replacement names), you need to keep your mouth shut. I love you <3 have fun.]

“I’m not an _actor_, Sergei, and you goddamn know it,” I seethe, eyes wide in the darkness of the ballroom corner I had ducked into. “If you...

Action

Humour

scar

allen

2 min read

there is a scar behind my ear leading down my neck. i tell people that i slipped and hit a doorframe, because i've heard the spiel of "maybe this sport isn't good for you" far too many times and i'd rather not hear it again.

it could not be further from the truth.

in little mites, there was a boy who hated me. truly hated me.

now he's one of my best friends and dating one of my players. but we'...

Kinda Warm

allen

11 min read

[A couple content warnings this time around. Lots of swearing, as per usual, and this is intended for mature-ish audiences. There is one(1) mention of boners and nothing is done about it. Have fun.]

“How’d you get past security with a brick of lead in your bag?”

Tyson sounds tired, deadbeat and quiet. Sergei laughs softly despite the newly dour mood, ducking his head before saying, “No lead...

Humour

Shot

allen

5 min read

[A few content warnings. This work contains one offhanded mention of mature content, and a _lot_ of swearing, as well as the typical violence that comes with action bits. Other than that, this is just a snapshot of a larger piece that I'm working on.]

It’s raining. Of course it's raining, heavy droplets tapping at the window, as if vying for Tyson to pay attention to them.

Maybe later.

Bec...

Action

Humour

don't you know

allen

1 min read

killed a man

got shiny blood on my ankles

and shiny blood on my hands

i’ve been crucified with a halo over my head

why do you worship me so, like the sun

but don't you know that the sun gets lonely up there

slowly expanding

slowly dying

just like you?

don’t you know that the sun will kill us someday?...

Poetry