White snowflakes glisten, bound in crystal bond
Reflecting sunshine and a brighter light -
A ... [+]
Reflecting sunshine and a brighter light -
A ... [+]
1 min
Poetry
Short Fiction
2 min
He Should Have Kissed Her
During his journey back home in the slowly slumbering sunlight, he thinks to himself about what he would change. Him standing over her, six feet and one desperate inch compared to her five feet and
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Creative Nonfiction
5 min
Silver Crap
My dad is as forgetful with English as I am with fish. For me, a carp, one beta fish, five goldfish, and an entire school of tetras – some pets, some not. For him, the alphabet soup of gramma
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Short Fiction
5 min
Who's Crazy?
"Dare," I chose. Kira's eyes gleamed, "Knock on Crazy's door." "What?! No one has ever gotten that close to his house," I exclaimed, looking around at my other friends for support. All four of ou
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Creative Nonfiction
2 min
The Darkest Hour
The full moon hung suspended in the air like a beacon of hope, that failed to shine in the darkest hour. The vast sky was pregnated with pinpricks of lights as the twinkling of burned-out stars still
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Short Fiction
5 min
The One Who Fell In Love With The Dark
It was counter-intuitive for Rita to fall in love with the dark, but it was also perfectly natural. Most kids do it at that age.
She had found a shadow, lurking under the large tires in the ... [+]
She had found a shadow, lurking under the large tires in the ... [+]
Poetry
1 min
For Your Sake
Can you tell me three things that made you smile today?
And three things you love about ... [+]
And three things you love about ... [+]
Poetry
1 min
Franklin Street
Oh, to be the most unseen but visible entity on good ol' Franklin Street-
Averted eyes ... [+]
Averted eyes ... [+]
Short Fiction
1 min
Her Future
She'll wake up tomorrow.
She'll open her eyes to a cold day fractured by a beam of light dashed across her face. She'll wait there for a minute, grasping onto the last bit of a fading dream. He ... [+]
She'll open her eyes to a cold day fractured by a beam of light dashed across her face. She'll wait there for a minute, grasping onto the last bit of a fading dream. He ... [+]
Poetry
1 min
Train from L.A. to San Diego
Poetry
3 min
snowbunnies
Creative Nonfiction
Do You Think the Dinosaurs Went to Heaven?
Yesterday it was sixty degrees outside, so I took my bike out for the first time all winter. I biked across the river to return a pair of jeans I'd bought online the week earlier; it turns out that
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Poetry
1 min
Keychain Comfort
Short Fiction
4 min
Self-Portrait with Side Effects
Ten years from now, I will be thirty-one. I picture this future person as someone who clambers out of bed every morning, wearing only boxers. His joints are stiff, and his newly-wedded wife will hea
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Creative Nonfiction
4 min
Rituals from a Crusty College Cave
A week before he told me he'd probably fuck other people over the summer, I almost said I loved him — more accurately, I loved his room.
We were lying in Mateo's bed, the twin-sized one all ... [+]
We were lying in Mateo's bed, the twin-sized one all ... [+]
Poetry
1 min