“The Disappearing Act” is one of the November Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. Strings of beads festooned her neck and English Rose perfume clung to her skin. Her heels clattered across the pavement and her hand clasped tightly around her coat collar. Something glinted in a puddle up ahead, like […]
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Why do I think that this version of “Out of the Woods” is better than the original? For starters, stripping away the techno and the effects allows the focus to be on the lyrics themselves, and the simple, beautiful piano matches the tone of the lyrics perfectly. Now, I’m positive there are many who will continue […]
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The sun greeted me and I wasn’t dreading the day. I felt unsure. I felt awakened I looked around for you, expecting to hear your voice. I expected you to call out to me like a shadow in the dark I expected another bruise to show up. I expected another excuse to rise up in […]
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The memory of you feels so real. It glitters there, in the back of my neck, filtering through marrow & veins & flesh that once felt imprinted with your scent. It’s what they call sillage and I have to believe them, if only to know you might still be with me in some molecular way. […]
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Relationships can be very exciting experiences, and they’re a necessary part of our individual growth. However, not every relationship lasts forever, and breakups can really bring you down. Regardless of who initiated it all, here are a few tips that I wholeheartedly stand by to help you cope with this change in your life. Self-care and self-love […]
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Relationships are a wonderful part of the human existence: You create intimate emotional and physical bonds with another human being, and you learn to let yourself grow within that relationship. Unfortunately, not all relationships end up lasting as long as we want them to. No matter who initiates a breakup, and no matter how long […]
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It started out like any other love story: with a fabricated sense of pure happiness. How can anything go wrong with the music of your laugh playing on repeat in my head, with your intoxicating scent lulling me to sleep. A sleep amiss of anything but warm, poppy-filled dreams that would make any girl swoon […]
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Dear 16-year-old me, The sole purpose of this letter is to assure you that it gets better. I promise. I know that right now, at this exact moment — just turning 16 only a few days ago — may seem like the worst time of your life. Well, with all that has happened in […]
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You will meet someone who will give a new definition to your name — like it suddenly means the whole universe and has room for every kind of flower there is, and he says it like it was always meant to sound like that. And things that always have annoyed you in people suddenly turn into […]
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