The stoplight on the corner had been broken for weeks. Westway Avenue was yellow and green at the same time, while Cherry Lane was forever red. Mabel knew this. Mom and Dad called it "the ... [+]
The stoplight on the corner had been broken for weeks. Westway Avenue was yellow and green at the same time, while Cherry Lane was forever red. Mabel knew this. Mom and Dad called it "the ... [+]
I went to Prague and a thousand spires greeted me; brushed the skies and toyed with the clouds. ... [+]
I never felt attached
to the translucent lights that dance across the glass
my
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Home is a place I’ve never lived
Even though I know the hills and valleys of it
I
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Highways
Vivisected
Shotgun houses
with mouths agape
gasping for air
Two fires
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in my chest i hold
flickering nights on your couch,
crumbs between the
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Send me the sunrise.
You told me it misses me.
The pink, orange, red,
Breaking the
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I apply just the right pressure to the doorknob
And it clicks open
I step inside, to the
... [+]
After another fast-paced day, the four adventurers were sitting in the bar of the Dragon’s Dungeon Inn. Suddenly, they felt a change in the air as the geometric orbs of predestination ceased thei ... [+]
Jumoke, Deji, and James are Nigerian-American students from Virginia that received a fellowship to work at a technology company in the central city of Lagos, Nigeria. They have been tasked to pitch ... [+]
I am sitting on the staircase looking out the window while the mother takes down the balloons and streamers. Painful quiet in the air until finally the gray car pulls up in the driveway. I stand up ... [+]
Fermin Tobera's grandfather was killed by the Americans. Now Fermin is in their country. He is in California. He is there to farm cabbages.
The Americans will kill him, too.
But he
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I stared into death; death stared back. The piercing gaze of the beast pinned me. I could not move. Dare not move. Locked in its predatory gaze, my vision tunneled. I was tuned to the highest note ... [+]
a. the house you grew up in
When you close your eyes, the images, sounds, smells, all come flooding back.
It’s been years, but you can still transport yourself in an instant, across time
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