He moved in, hand clutching hand as I was pushed into the wall. The sky was eerie bright, the half-moon large, sparked light.
It was our third date, a monumental first step. The first had
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I found it in his gray suit coat while doing some cleaning. It was in a white marbled box tucked in his coat pocket. I knew it was meant to be a surprise, but I couldn’t help my fingers from sliding ... [+]
An essential worker,
that’s what I’ve become
Amidst in COVID
Skyrockets to the sun
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On the southern banks of the Susquehanna, when the last dregs of winter were melting away- that’s when I first met my true love. Her name was Susannah Lee, and I had never seen anything quite like ... [+]
When I was six, a seed took root in my body. Though small, it had a profound effect. I was young and naïve, and this new part of me was like a new toy for me to break in. I fed it, watered it and ... [+]
I never understood those lines about the naked woman on the roof:
roofs are already perfectly
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Observation: the freckles that map her body are as limitless as the stars in the night sky ... [+]
Carrie Jackson wasn’t a normal child.
Science had always been her favorite subject, studying life and death and the cycle that all things had to go through in some form or another. Afte
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My father hands me a small box when I arrive for Thanksgiving break. It is from my grandmothe ... [+]
Though I’m always game to try new foods—strange sea creatures boiled in wine, caviar on crackers, beef carpaccio—there’s a solid list of foods I cannot stand, and this makes me feel like a ... [+]
Pain never lasts,
Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is
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