I started writing this speech because I thought I’d be the best presidential contender. What I realized is, I’m just the same as everyone else here. I’m tired of my own bullshit. Fuck this job!...

Laundry covered the bins. One sound and she’d jump in fright, were they coming for the last two months rent? She kept a flashlight near her bed because she never knew when they’d finally shut off her lights. Her fridge looked back at her, bare. Just as empty as her stomach. Cocktails. Online men. Slices in her skin. These were her escape.

Self hate had already over stayed its welcome within her m...

Life is a life regardless if it’s a criminal. At least that’s what Dave learned in his training. That doesn’t change the fact that this man is known for dealing drugs to middle school age kids.

Nonetheless when the man was about to step in front of a speeding truck, drunk, Dave was the one who pulled him back in.

At least alive he had a chance to make things right and stop the choices he was m...

Her shirt hugged the cream to the welts.

Everything ached like a vulnerable nerve from a cavity that’s brokeness has been invaded. A whip on the back, chest, and rear.

The desire to please and revere above her own regard. When had it gotten this far?

The never ending cycle of used and then cutoff. A cycle she could not seem to get enough of.

She sat without the presence of neither of her ma...

“I don’t want to get in trouble! I can’t afford to lose everything I’ve built. I have no other choice but this.” Hayden spoke stern despite feeling squirmish.

Lacey ignored her and picked yet another tulip from the campus courtyard. There were more than twelve stolen flowers in her hand from all around campus. This was stealing, and Hayden was not okay with it, maybe if it had just been one, but ...

“Do you want to be married anymore?” She asks.

“I don’t.” He declares.

The words fell to the floor with large thuds matching the rhythm of her increasing heart rate. His confession went up against an invisible shock field, a wall, that surrounded her completely, and had for a while now. What broke through and reached her heart was the truth on his face, how he looked at her said enough, he was, ...