I am the backup friend

the one they think of at the end

the one friend whose always there

the one that really truly cares

only here to comfort my friends

when they are at their loose ends

but that’s all i can do

without me they would be like “who are you?”

if I don’t text back

my existence will lack

I am the back up friend

without me they don’t know where I went...

I have held many things in my hands and have lost them all. I once held a crown, a kingdom, and love. These halls once filled with laughter, now silent. A king once strong and whole, now shattered, insane. The people throng around outside my empty castle.

“My prince, give us aid.”

“Save us my prince.”

“Oh prince, help us.”

They clamor for answers and they accuse.

“You stay in your castle, your pal...

I held so many things in my hands,

A two-year-old’s hand as they guide

Me through the house running and laughing

A pencil after the long nights of studying

To get through school.

A person to hug my family my friends

A warm cup of coffee and a Bible on Sundays

Boxes full of food to donate to the poor

Cause God knows they need more

Iv held sticks to burn in a fire

Iv held a newborn...

there used to be six of us

now i’m alone

the memories fade into dust

like the marrow of my bones

there used to be six of us

but One held her head too high

too proud, too vain

she left us to die

there used to be six of us

but Two was a monster

too angry, too violent

he let us wonder

there used to be six of us

but Three cried real bad

too loud, too emotional

gone, was what he had

there used to s...

I tried not to look sad as I forced a smile. People pass me, everyday, almost like I am nothing. Like I mean nothing, and like I’m not human. Which at this point I’ll believe.

I push open the doors of the school, the warm air comforting me, after I had been sitting in my history class, feeling like I was in a freezer.

Thousands of kids rush past me, climbing into cars. I can almost picture it.

M...

When beheading with a guillotine was a public execution people used to bet on how many times the eyes would blink after the head was severed from the body. The person was no longer alive but their brain was still active causing the eyelids to twitch. Once it stopped the life would leave their eyes.

But what happens when someone is shot in the head? The brain goes flying everywhere. There’s nothin...

Downclaw looked down at the pedestal before him and took a deep breath in. He lifted his eyes to see the mass of people stood before him, all waiting with bated breath, to hear what he was about to say.

“And so it has come to this, my dear compatriots. It has come to this.” Downclaw nodded slightly, his expression grim, his furry white eyebrows furrowed.

He moved his hand to readjust his grey su...

I’ve held onto a lot of things but they never seem to stay....

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. My boyfriend, my parents, my house, and my whole childhood. Here I am at the age of 21 in the van me and my mother decided to redo when I was 15. We said we would travel all 50 states together in it until her untimely death. She was shot shopping while trying to call 911 after the place was robbed. Bullet to the head. She was the sweet...

The main character Joseph “Joe” Murdock was always a charismatic outgoing ladies man. In his earlier years he’s dated many beautiful women and all of them flawless gems. He has had 1 accidental pregnancy from one of his ladies but that never slowed him down. His baby mama Joi named her son Joseph after his father he was greatful but he still wanted nothing to do with the mother anymore the sexual ...