There is a difference between people who swim with sharks and people who get thrown overboard because choosing to take risks isn’t the same as being forced to. No one chooses to drown unless they’ve been given a reason, and this world, well, it’s one to reason with. Don’t get me wrong, I love the […]
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You are spread across the floor, flattened out, his hands smoothing the parchment of your skin. The contours of your body form continents. He lies on top of you, over the whole world, and not a moment’s glance does he spare …………for the cities in your eyes; instead he explores the mountain-range of your spine, […]
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I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DEAD ON THE GROUND. LET ME SING FOR THE FALLEN; LET ME MOURN AND LET ME WEEP. LET ME LOOK AT THE SIGNS OF STRUGGLE AND AT THE BATTLE SCARS. THEN LET ME SAY THAT I MADE IT OUT ALIVE. LET ME SAY THAT I’VE SURVIVED. LET ME SAY THAT […]
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Whenever I think I’ve moved on, I realize that I am the ghost haunting my own body. I keep finding his name inked, hidden in the corners of my skin, tucked behind my ear, under my tongue, in the crook of my knee. If I hold someone too close, his name rubs off. In photographs, […]
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It’s that time again when most stores are having huge clothing sales and Office Max and Staples are stocking up for the next big event: school. Now there is a lot of talk at the high schools about the newbies, a.k.a. the new freshmen, that are coming in. It’s a big change going from a […]
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