There was a dreadful silence when the Doctor stood still in the office, to the point if you hushed your thoughts for long enough I swear you could hear the blood coursing through...
I know my darling boy,
The way his eyes twinkle when he plays with toys,
And how he hides when he sees insects.
The thing in my house is not my son,
The way its eyes twinkle...
Ash and soot stained the eyes of uniformed men trudging through the mud, the taste of dried blood on their tongues as they ventured north. The soldiers were ordered not to look down, not to look...
Erin wasn't here today. I knew this every time I glanced towards where I’m trained to expect her being. And I didn’t miss her because in some parts, Erin was still there,...
It wasn’t that Ally didn’t like high school, exactly, but she’d seen exactly what was going to happen from her first moment at Howard High–except falling for Phillip....
My petals are a golden;
The brightest beams of a swollen sun.
They’re swooned over, so foreign
Yet a lyre gently strung.
I’m praised for my sparkle
A blessing just...
There are words I drown in a lake
until they fall to the depths
of whatever lies in my mind’s willows.
Rather than speaking them,
I yell my confessions with pencil lead,
leaping ...
She appears again in the flicker,
condensing like moisture on glass
until she looks almost human.
Her skin hums with distortion,
several faces try to line up into one.
When...
The day you left, your roots were torn. It wasn’t a sudden or blunt affair, but rather slow like the moon stepping before the pitch dark curtain of the night to flaunt its...