Been a year now without you, without having those seemingly endless conversations and rants, without savoring your delectable cuisine, without you complimenting me, my outfits, my hair, and everything, everything. Yet none of those 365 or less days passed by without me reminiscing about you. The night you carved a pathway for yourself, to embark […]
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I know you still dream of space, as if there’s more hope where the stars are and no distance between us. I’m sorry I had to leave. We both know making homes in heartbeats only lead to clichés, like standing outside your window, crying in the rain. I swear, in another life, it’s us who […]
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I am small…a speck in the grandeur of your life, already a distant dream ……fading …………………….fleeting But you are statuesque and still, a slab of pure marble, unadulterated, unaltered, and mystifying. . But I am not small. …………I am effervescent. I am here. I am constant. I am growing to be (bewhatexactly? ……………….imnotsurebutiambecomingit) And you will […]
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…………Lights flashed, and it was …………a dark and coiled path. Then in …………a single throb, that moment …………she crossed and she realized …………the impact of her blink meant he was gone. …………All broken. Alyssa Dietrich is a Creative Writing Major at Salisbury University with work appearing previously in Scarab Magazine. […]
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Each morning I hid the girl I saw in the mirror — the girl that no one else saw but me. She was me in the natural state, with ratted hair, smelling breath, and a bare face. I covered her up with makeup to make her beautiful. I layered on a facial primer, foundation, and […]
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“A Million Fragments of Feathers” is one of the March Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. The dandelions come out today. They are scattered across the fields, each lonely fleck of sun-given yellow standing in their own random place, and yet together they seem to form some kind of […]
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