Do you know how often I still think of you? How many hours I’ve lost scrolling through the shrine of your Instagram; how I am an addict for the rewind of your stories. Do you know that when it’s late and I’m sad again I open your Facebook page, a reflex more natural than reaching […]
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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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Sleepless nights, and stoplights, and sunburned exhaustion. You make me want to wake up, even when I’m so tired I can’t see straight. My heart broke into so many pieces, I felt like I’d never recover. I was a collection of atoms doomed to the inevitable law of entropy. But even as I was falling […]
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Good friends are the people who acknowledge when you’re sad, when you’re struggling, and who do everything that’s possible to support you and make you feel like you’re not alone. Good friends are the people who you’re able to spend your time with and come away feeling fulfilled — feeling happy and loved and as […]
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This story is one of the July Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . i glance outside. leaves are falling in ever-radiant shades of crimson. how ironic, that it be autumn. how ironic, that summer is over, that my summer is gone. turning my attention to the sea of faces in front […]
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In a blink she’s gone, her seat empty In a blink he no longer walks around the school grounds In a blink not an echoing laugh is heard In a blink no guitar note has been found In a blink they are near In a blink they were never here They are far but not […]
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Day One ren@animeaddict: oh my gosh! did you see her today?! gosh! i hate seeing her face. everybody hates you! ane@fakinginnocence: nobody likes you! you and your black lips can fly away!!! n@animallover: in reply to ane@fakinginnocence: “nobody likes you! you and your black lips can fly away!!!” hahahahah black lips 😀 em@notyourgoodgirl: i ACCIDENTALLY […]
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Somewhere between flattery and glorification, I watched the shell of a coconut, a strong, resistant, carefully fronted facade break open to reveal a tender vulnerability, clinging on to a resilient shell of grandeur and hardiness– a tender vulnerability that offered a delightful sweetness that reminded consumers of the bliss that followed blood and sweat. Somewhere […]
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Dear stranger, You don´t know me, why would you? I´m just the girl who is always reading on the bus and has a journal so full of words that sometimes it seems it´s going to blow up. Of course you don´t know me, but you know what? I don´t care. Many people dream about becoming […]
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