Rejuvenate me, Moon. Let your milky, pearlescent pride irradiate my skin;
it curls into even the most neglected crevices, gently caressing the cracks of my shaky hands and the dirt atop my unkempt cuticles.
You love everyone,
even the ordinary hill I sprawl about,
and the sharp grass that pinches me.
Here I’ll reside every night,
letting you whisk me apart from existence.
I’ll forever ascend...
Amelia took a deep breath, and pushed open the door to her 20-year school reunion.
She knew what they were going to say, what they would see
Her life. In pieces.
The death of her younger sister had wrecked her, utterly and entirely. Permanently.
The day Lola left forever was the day that Amelia died. She could no longer bear a smile, not when all that she loved was gone.
It had all happene...
If silence had a scent,
it would smell like a dead body.
It’s heavy, it’s oppressive,
it’s the stench of you in the hospital.
It’s the empty reminder
that lingers everywhere:
in your bed,
in your favorite spot by the swings,
and in my head.
No matter how hard I try,
I’ll never escape it.
Silence is everywhere,
silence in you....
Stay away from the rippling current,
I’ll bring you down with me
while I drown myself.
The wounded girl hurts back the hardest.
It hurts more for you to try.
_i’m sorry for smashing our window._
_i made a wreckage from my anger._
_tiny broken knives scattered everywhere._
i didn’t mean it, but yes, i’m the shattered glass,
in pie ces
& pi eces, e ces.
Yet watch as you wr...
Waiting tables for the week
Am I just my blistered feet?
This town is a stretch—
silver row of bars—
and bars—
_ and_ _bars_—
I can’t wait to leave.
I get drunk
on the clink from the tip jar
but I’ll never see my dreams stretch far—
not if I stay here.
One day I’ll be found.
Mama, just wait ‘till I’m on the stage,
sing...
Sapphire crystalline seas,
glissading through my glossy grasp.
Sweet salt sifting in the breeze,
slipping from my desperate clasp.
I realize as I weep:
there’s none my heart can keep.
Bless Solitary Me like the others, Universe.
These empty places leave me far, far worse.
What can endure this state, when all I have is this soloing weight?
_Wander, Wanderer, wander._
_Someone will find you...
**_SHOCKING NEWS: UGLY PLANT FOUND IN THE ROYAL GARDENS!
_****_
_**Avery could practically see the headline in bold, colorful print. What scandal this could cause.
An orangish-gray bud stood right below his knee, tall with a ghostly white stem. Its roots packed deep within the ice-blue grass. Yellow freckled spots were scattered across the flower’s tip, and the whole thing drooped, looking deject...
**_“It’s over.”_**
Those two words flash across my iPhone screen, burning into my mind indelibly. I can still visualize the white glow even after squeezing my teary eyes shut. Literally, my future has been doomed by a text message.
**_THUD._**
Cracks from my beloved screen protector becomes nearly inaudible as I go into half-shock, I haven’t processed my shattered phone.
My hands are vibrating...
Claire Thornton has grown up with absolutely nothing, but her smarts to rely on. Her life can be characterized by ugly misfortunes, but why does it all feel predetermined?
When a new boy in town, who seems as if fate folds and bends to his will, arrogantly arrives, Claire is enraged. Everything good in his life seems methodically calculated. How does he do it?
Seeing his luck infuriates her, re...
_If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die._
Lila Montgomery was a writer.
Liam Anderson was her muse.
Rainy, gray days were spent together, in proximity at least. Lila would ponder in their bedroom, her bony fingers hovering over the typewriter, waiting for the perfect inspiration to manifest itself; Liam would often be in the kitchen, preparing a warm meal for the two of them.
...
