Creative
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HEINA III
I couldn’t bear it. I reread the same sentence in my journal five times and couldn’t remember a word of it–unable to rid the thought that the system might…
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Unawake
Another sleepless night. This is my seventeenth sleepless night in a row. What I’m saying is not insomnia, because I knew that experience from university. I haven’t slept for…
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Stay?
When it was good, it was very, very good. There was an ease in the way they existed around each other that was akin to planets in orbit— constant,…
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Anabasis
TW: Physics They say it was a positron leakage, as Meyrin, Switzerland, went off with a bang. A collision between any particle and its anti-particle partner leads…
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In Spaces Between
“Where are you going?” The girl didn’t know if that was directed to her. If she was smarter, maybe, she would have done the better thing. Taken the…
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Child-like Faith
The universe knew her best when she was a kid. The whispered secrets to the moon, wishes woven into the dandelions by the wind, closed eyes at 11:11 like…
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Dreamscape
Date: 1983 Location: Villon, Paris. Author: Penelope Thornhill Miss Verena told me today that the peach tree Papa and I planted before I left for Paris had begun…
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Nature and I
The snow grew needles on my skin, yet my body formed a barrier, producing goosebumps instead of blood. The heatwaves surrounded my fragile body, yet beads of sweat covered…
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Force of Nature
Part 1 || Island of Spirits There is a flame spirit in my house. You can never, ever underestimate them, albeit a small one like mine. They can…
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HEINA II
TW: mentions of death The crowd didn’t stop moving; that was the first thing I noticed. There were no screams, no hesitation. No one even slowed down. They…
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City of Ice
Snow fell in thick blankets across the cold, barren landscape in which I trudge. The watery light of the day had long ago slipped out of sight, and inky…
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My Name Identity
TW: Includes childhood bullying, light hearted conversations, writer notes, and unoriginal classmates. The journey in finding out my name’s story is quite a tale, but it all started when…
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Hyperparasitism
It had never entered his head that his son was not his own blood. How could it have? But doubt was such an insidious thing, digging into the day-to-day,…
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Sophia’s Strangest Disappearance
TW Depression It was not like I could talk a lot of sense into Sophia. I never could. No one ever could. Once she had formed an opinion…
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Miracle
Miracle It was Orion’s boots that caught his eye first. It was the middle of summer, so those were probably the only boots around for ten miles.…
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I talked and He listened
I talked and He listened. The green pastures let me rest, beside a quiet stream. The earth stretched His glorious hands soaking me in His warmth that asked nothing…
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Puzzle Piece
My mind is a puzzle, But there is a missing piece, I feel alive but incomplete. The others they all seem so Together, But I just seem to change…
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HEINA I
HEINA I TW: mentions of death Maybe this is a dream. Maybe I’m delusional, crazy, making this all up. Or maybe it’s real – maybe this is an…
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Three Little Pigs
All three pigs survived, but why was only one of them called smart? They said it was a fair world, that the pigs who failed were simply lazy, stupid,…
