Steam from neon signs faded into the night while this city bustled with people despite the weather. So, sanctuary was found in the darkness of alleys, where no mortals felt safe enough to walk down ... [+]
Who knows how the rumor started?
The whistle shrieks. "Out," Armena Mint, Four Square Captain, declares.
Maybe some boy made it up—you know how they are.
"What? How? The ball
... [+]
JANUARY 2020. 7234 miles from Chicago, China reports the first death from a novel coronavirus. There is no evidence it can spread among humans.
I'm commuting to school and two women on the train are
... [+]
Blood, bile, my shin chimes,
Bone ghost-clangs under grapefruit
Bump. Once, I was blind.
... [+]
I love it when I see your eyes basking,
Not in the morrow of the sun's omniscient light,
But
... [+]
I had my very first sip of coffee when I was 6 years old. Dad picked me up from school one Monday afternoon in his grey Toyota Corolla and took me straight to the Deja Brew in town. He didn't even ... [+]
"My love is dead."
Her eyes were red
As she told her tale of woe.
"He disappeared
And
... [+]
"Perhaps it's true what they say, and people do meet in dreams." He said. "I know because I saw you in mine."
And he had.
They'd met in Paris. But it was a cleaner, more abstract Paris
... [+]
He is warm weather in February,
The sun enveloping me in a hug,
Ten thousand heavy, buzzing
... [+]
They walked along the trail
in their own rhythm
even the flies landed on their faces
I
... [+]
I win the science fair, not with a volcano but a geyser spewing out marshmallow fluff. I am awarded ... [+]
I took the metro everyday past Tula and the station, South, from the farthest point within Moscow's transport limits. It's where the Germans stopped in 1942, and where the buses brought in people from ... [+]
Rain pattered softly outside the frosted window. He saw her standing in the cafe, sweeping the floor. Night was settling on the city, two lamp posts illuminating the street as darkness nestled around ... [+]
if i could hold you
for just a moment
if i could feel you in the night
for just a moment
... [+]
I woke up and it's snowing in Greensboro,
as if when I woke I kept dreaming;
The sky is
... [+]
Now, had you ever cared to inform me
Of what it means to waste careless years
Wishing that I
... [+]
Today I put up a Missing Person sign,
Hands clutching face by the landline.
Missing: not of
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