Your hands reach down for the large club that is laid out in front of you. It pricks you as you brush past the top where barbed wire is wrapped around, and you have no choice but to whip your hand back. Blood pools in the palm of your hand, surely foreshadowing the layout of this next adventure.

You are more careful this time, reaching for the safe grip. With weapon in hand, it feels safest to...

this comes in at a time when i wanted to die. i hated my friends. i hated the way i looked. i hated the way my parents screamed at each other with me right in the middle of it. i wanted to die. how that death came about i didn’t care. shoot me, wreck, drown. i just prayed every night it would occur. i had the heart-crushing day and all reason went out the window. some man i had known for all of th...

“John, you down there?”

The voice rang, shaking the sides of the cave. The caution tape had been pulled back to get through the entrance which had previously protected them from falling down said steps. Looking down, the light coming from the very bottom of the steps shined so fake that it gave new light to ways of falling down. There was always the possibility they would have toppled down be...

i watch as you get undressed

criss cross engraved in your back

from that bra you just can’t live without.

my my

my fingers want to trail across

touching every inch of your body

until you beg for me to stop because you just can’t handle it.

i watch from afar

our little secret

“no one has to know” i breathe.

it’s tuesday

you’re going to go out with your friends

i’ll stay home and give you yo...

When they had gotten far enough from the bank, The man dropped his girlfriend’s hand and looked at her with a huge smile, showing off the bag that had all the money. “Look what we just did!”

She stared at him with big eyes, on the verge of hyperventilating. She couldn’t muster words to describe what had just happened. All she could truly see was the people hitting the ground, one after another...

When I was thirteen, my mother made the decision to pack up all of our belongings and move us halfway across the country. To a town, I will not tell you the name of. Immediately upon our arrival, every question that could have been asked racked my brain. I stopped sleeping on the nights when my brain was at its heaviest.

The story starts with the mysterious forest that laid two hundred ...

i believed in a world that existed without you.

where summer enjoyed snowfall and the warm sweaters we bought together

and winter brought fresh flowers and midnight adventures in your car.

you had opened a door for a world I couldn’t believe in

just because you said ‘hello’

exactly when i needed it.

brightly painted frames

and a doorknob that jolted my body

every time i touched you.

you were onl...

She had an open-door policy

the time?

It didn’t matter.

Two doors down

from the apartment I

grew in.

She was fifty-seven

when my front door was wide open

and she marched right in

taking me and little Billy from our crib

as our mama relapsed on the floor

in front of our three year old

yorkie. He went down with mom

that night.

His relapse was fatal.

How do you explain to a bunch of

four-year-old...

“Is God supposed to punish people like us?”

“What do you mean? We’re people, aren’t we?”

He took a deep breath as he attempted to gather the thought process surrounding his statement. His eyes closed and his head tilted farther back into his partner's lap. Moments passed of complete silence. He wasn’t the quiet type, nor really the one that thought about what he said. When it came to serious...

You can’t help denying yourself from the maniacal laugh you felt coming up through your windpipes. Staring at the headlines of another newspaper, tears form in your eyes; that’s how funny you think of this.

Another scientist has claimed that they have figured it out. You know that is is completely impossible, especially without your help. What would you even possibly gain from helping out t...