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Author: Marissa J. Gates

Marissa J. Gates is a 22-year-old creative writing student from Colorado. She believes written word is the most important form of art, and this is her way of passing down her own story in hopes it touches ANYONE else.

A Secret Garden by Marissa J. Gates

Posted on Apr 19, 2019Jun 18, 2019 by Marissa J. Gates

While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth garden that is the middle of me. Hope waits at the gates as I swing myself over and over the green pond at the center and rub fallen pink rose […]

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depression and my guardian angel by Marissa Gates

Posted on May 5, 2017Feb 18, 2019 by Marissa J. Gates

my guardian angel— she has a harder job description than the others. instead of watching me from a distant puff of heaven, every morning, she must sew my silk skin around her so I don’t have to say one more apology to my body. she has to remind me to breathe; puts her lips right […]

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