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Elastic (a poem)

Dream Until it leans Sharper and insistent Until it shimmers Between the shreds of doubt Until it thaws And comes back to life Until it rips Through your diaphragm Until it tumbles In and out of promise Until it slams One door and pries...

She Runs (a poem)

She runs To and from Islands of composure Gliding through sun and shadow Fate pursuing dominance Against tenacious tides Where everything swims Unruly and collected Polite public masks Bobbing between cartoonish faces Distortion holding her close to fear Where...

Seductive Quill (a poem)

She writes In succumb To the thrum Of a sinister Distorted base Thoughts swelling In midnight blue Surmounting Limbo states of want Fingers twitching With molten maledictions Ten interminable storms In elemental digression Hurling metaphors Against the clogs Of a...

A Best Friend from Creation

To this day, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that this incredible person came from inside of me, a tiny body attached to a cherub’s face, gifted with the eyes of a much older soul. She first connected with my cradled arms, a human burrito with a...

At My Fingertips (a poem)

It happened Against the nocturnal blush Of the whispering sky My eyes lost In its infinite blackness Until I suddenly found myself Up in those stars And again in the shadows That melded and danced Beneath the brooding trees And I caught an epiphany On the wind As...

See. Hear. Feel. (a poem)

I see I hear I feel Am I the only one who can? Why do you rush when there’s nothing but time? Why don’t you dance when the music comes on? Is it because people are watching? Show them how amazing you are! Why wear beige and seep into walls? Why not wear red — be a...

Goodbye to Grace (a poem)

No matter how she began Or the tears that came From the pain she felt In moments of shame Knowing poise and grace Weren’t hers to claim Though she wanted them so How incredibly vain To have taunted fate On a crowded stage That would never be Her sole domain When...

A Tale of Two Kisses – Part 2 of 2 (a short story)

The next year passed...uneventfully. I whittled away the hours, married to a job I hated, while my limited blocks of playtime lent themselves to bar hopping and frog kissing. All I had to show for it was a borderline anxiety disorder, an occasional hangover, and a...

A Tale of Two Kisses – Part 1 of 2 (a short story)

It was summertime. The sky flashed its happy-go-lucky smile, yet my mood was sullen. Weird. He was due to arrive at any moment. After all, it was a momentous occasion—our fourth anniversary as a couple. We’d been together since I was 18. We didn't exactly fit...

Birth of a Story

A writer can pull a story idea from any number of sources: a personal experience, a news article, a favorite song, or even another existing story (usually spun into “fan fiction”). Or, in some cases, a story premise or even just a single scene may come to fruition...