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 ... [+]
"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 ... [+]
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 ... [+]
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
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Can you tell me three things that made you smile today?
And three things you love about
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Oh, to be the most unseen but visible entity on good ol' Franklin Street-
Averted eyes
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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
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Lavender waves
and mirrors along the coast.
Pointillism birds shatter the reflection.
The
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1.
For a fire it didn't hurt much
more than sore teeth or
sour dates, salad day fates
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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 ... [+]
Dear owl on my keychain,
Your round tummy
is a comfort to rub.
And now the painted
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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 ... [+]
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
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In these blue sheets, I've become
Heated butter
Jellied candy
Marshmelloed
A new liminal
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I was going to my university when I saw this lady in the subway. So confident and beautiful, humming ... [+]
