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…
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…
There’s so many things to feel right now, so many crossroads to consider that every waking moment almost feels exhausting. Not that life doesn't already often feel exhausting... just in a different way. Things are exhausting now because you have to choose what you want to endure. And making that sort of commitment to anything…
People and faces float by, Barely holding onto a sense of reality, My mind forgets, fading and blurring talking mouths and darting eyes, Directed at me. Sensations and feelings float by, Barely making a difference in my heart, Snuffled and muffled, as if hidden under a heavy bed sheet, My emotions rest unsteady. Opportunities and chances…
To celebrate the end of 2018, I've thought of something a little different to kick off this new year. Here's four things I've learned throughout the past year, and four things I hope to learn in the upcoming one! Things I've learned (because you've always gotta start with positive criticism!) Anything, in the extreme, is…
You'll always want to be the girl who everyone falls in love with. Margo from Paper Towns. The hopelessly hopeless; the doomed to a life of loneliness because you'll never find someone you love. Never find anyone with the same spark as you have. You'll want to spend your life running and searching. Running from the people…
It’s a cold winter night and you’re trying to be as stiff and skinny as possible so that your arms don’t touch the smooth insulation inside your puffy winter jacket, which hasn’t quite trapped enough of your body heat to keep from sending shivers up your spine. The trees loom around you, wearing white coats…
Sometimes it’s late at night and you’re not feeling great, mentally, and you’re listening to sad songs and you’re in that pensive mindset, the one that’s perfect for putting pretty beads onto a simple string. The one that’s perfect writing. The mindset you almost wished you always had; if not for the fact that it…
It's something there, residing, deep in the pores of your skin. The stuff that makes tiny black dots appear, or red volcanoes erupt along your face. The bad stuff, the really bad stuff that you're so ashamed to admit you just stuff it down, lock it away, push it further. The stuff that you can't…
What is success anymore? I'm so young, I'm so young... but I haven't done anything yet. There are people my age out there who have published books, started companies, been accepted to prestigious schools. There are so many people out there who've already started doing so many things, their lives can only keep going uphill from here. They're already…
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