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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You deserve nothing less Than extraordinary. Do not settle for Mediocre just because it’s there. Do not settle for Anything less than Amazing just because you can. You are worth the universe. Do not give in to stars and praises. Compliments and galaxies Are nothing but words and constellations Compared to you. You are beautiful, […]
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It’s that time of year again… spring (er, almost summer) cleaning! At this point, many of us have moved home from our dorms or apartments and are sitting among piles of our stuff in our tiny childhood bedrooms. Okay, so our dorms were tinier… but they held so much stuff! Where did it all come […]
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“Crash Landing” is one of the September Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . The starship began to shudder, breaking through the planet atmosphere. Alarms went off, the cabins temperature rose, the pilot struggled with the controls. She […]
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Virginia Woolf once said that one needed a room of their own if they were to succeed in writing. While I agree, I also think that her statement can encompass so much more. Come on, we all need our space, right? However, an entire room to someone might be a bit of a long shot. You might have […]
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If asked to describe your flaws, I would say that you never think of the power behind your words. You think that telling me you’re too numb to talk will make me give you space, but all it does is give me sleepless nights and chewed up nail beds. Before I know it, it’s 3am […]
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Want a better idea of how huge the universe is? Take a gander at the biggest and most detailed image yet of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, which is 2.5 million light years away and estimated to contain a trillion stars. Now think about how estimates have shown that there are more than 100 billion galaxies […]
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Driving into the mountains is always remembering what I’d forgotten, the air filling in something that had been deflated, seeing them looming, heavy on all sides pressing down into me like I want. Touching you, the weight of you, body pressing into me, just like. I had wanted to be a city girl but I […]
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Alyssa Carson is a 13-year-old Louisiana girl with the huge dream of being the 1st person to land on Mars. Her tale is incredibly inspirational because she is (obviously) a girl who has dedicated her young life to her dogged pursuit of becoming an astronaut. Alyssa has dedicated herself to studying science on her path […]
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