I think there’s an unusually high percentage of young girls who denounce femininity in the only ways they can understand it; picking green instead of pink, thrashing when a dress is pulled over her head, refusing to play with the dolls when her friends ask. It’s a weird concept to grow up a girl and…
Today I was in class when the professor tossed me onto a steel slab of a table. Medical gowns are thin enough to feel the cold seeping through the metalㅡ do they know I’m still alive in here? This breathing, beating, bothered thing. They want to know if I’m red on the inside just like…
Do you imagine the rose like I do? Flitting across the stage in green dress and red hairㅡ darker than the rest of them and sharper tooBut she certainly manages to keep the eyes of her audienceAnd her cast mates’ wist When do you think they’ll notice her costume isn’t A costume, but a clueTo an underneath,…
You clean your shelves and dust them for new, hoping the freshness will bring you motivation. Or at least calm your growing fear of centipedes hiding between your book pages. It goes well, for the most part. You rearrange your journals, placing them from smallest to biggest on one end of the shelves. You find…
This year has brought you back to a type of loneliness you’d thought you’d left behind a long time ago. When you think about it, thoughㅡ really take the time to look back and wonder about how you were feeling, doing, this time five or six months or a whole year ago, you realize something;…
Twenty nineteen has felt like three years in the amount of things I’ve learned. To give you an idea, I’ve compiled a list of 19 things I learned throughout the year. Only you know how strong you are. And no matter what, there’s not a single person that can take that away from you. You genuinely…
I can use you to get to my treasure, the sweet gold you know the location of.Of course I’m not here for you, not when there’s so much more sitting on the bench in a locked room.But I need you to lead me the way sweetheart, no tricks or short-cuts.Is that so wrong? I’ve made…
I wonder if you know yourself as well as I know me, dancing around late at night under the transient lighting of a whirlwind of cars and stars. Do you notice how fast everything moves? What about how far away I’m getting? It seems like a bad idea to chase after you, so I don’t.…
Warning: there are some intense spoilers of Frozen 2 below, you might want to see the film before you give it a read. You can imagine my dismay when I leaned back in the theater, ready to be amazed by detailed animation and a vocal track that would be stuck in my head for daysㅡ…
You wake and it takes you a moment to recover from your dream; the woman’s face, her haunting eyes, her blackened teeth. You’re not sure what it means that after looking at her for too long yours started to fall out as wellㅡ chunks of pink gum flaking off into your mouth, struggling not to…
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