This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. I hear his footsteps long before I bother to …
Dandelion Hill by Bobbi Sinha-Morey
I followed you into the distances of the afternoon, a bronze butterfly in my path alighting on the tan trunk of a tree, blowing in …
Snow-Kissed Lips by Vegas Stocker
Our lips may have been pressed together, but what he really touched was my heart. I had given up on being happy and finding someone …
Never by Moyurie Som
I never wanted to fall in love with you. I never wanted it to happen that way, never meant to let the news of your existence …
Kissing Boys That Taste Like Ink and Spitting Fire in Motel Sinks by Lindsey Hobart
The first boy I kiss doesn’t write. He doesn’t understand why my bedroom walls tell stories that are sixteen years too long. He does not …
What I Never Wrote by Kayla Wheeler
was how no one begged Erica and I to make out in her parents’ hot tub while they were on a camping trip in seventh …
It Wasn’t What I Wanted, Clearly by Maggie Bowyer
How can you admit To that kiss in your car But then come out and say It was just one kiss, And a kiss means …
The Kiss You Can Never Forget
So let’s be honest: cold sores are gross and no one wants to actually talk about them. That, dear reader, is why you are looking …