Creative
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You Are Human
But here, you’re treated like cattle. Sedated, reduced from the most capable creature on the planet To just a pair of eyes and a thumb. This is by design.…
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Chew, Chew, Swallow
The ability to taste what you are eating has benefits. One significant advantage is that you can tell if something is wrong with your food. This is not an…
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When Grief Calls
“Hello?” 7 months, 20 days, and 2 hours had passed since she last called him 7 months, 20 days, and 2 hours since she allowed herself to turn on…
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Poet Heart
Long before you were her world, She’d type and write and scribble There was so much to write about She’d do it till her heart felt simple. She would…
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Sunsets
I once read a quote by Rumi – “true love transcends physical attraction.” By my own relationships, I know this quote to be true. When I threw my hat…
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Library Shenanigans
28/06 “Ebony, you really need to start preparing for your mock exams. What if you unexpectedly get cyanide poisoning two days before your exam and can’t sit it??!” Why…
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Journal Entries for the Unmotivated
23/04/2027 So close, yet so far – I forgot the assessment deadline, so I ended up failing. Wah wah, whatever. I hate law school. There is a pile of…
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Back To Earth
Esa was often right. It wasn’t something he liked to think about, but his intuition would always worm in, like larvae digging into the fruit of his flesh. Whatever…
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Spellbound
“Hey, do you guys hear that?” But Marcus’s voice got lost in the music of the sea and radio. The Spellbound swayed gently under his feet, the deck littered…
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The Obsessed Artist
Every single hair, Every single chip, Every single detail, Must be perfection. For my work is no less than that. I am no less than that. …
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Weighted Air
Alone in the driver’s seat, the cold air pressed down around Neve in that particular way only silent night air could, tranquil and yet still bursting with possibilities. It…
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Lost Souls
She’s right here, she really is. Her presence ever so warm, her smile warming the despair of three-thirty in the morning, peeking at him beneath their covers. …
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Asphodel Meadows
The stretch of elastic under the constant pressure; pushed against both ends by steady fingers. Slow. Whining. I knew it would hurt when released, I closed my eyes so…
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The Dream That Wasn’t
His monotone voice droned on as minutes stayed stagnant. “Now… Worksheet 1 on the… Complete it….Good.” The humid air suffocated my lungs. Each second seemed to be clawing…
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For My Mother
Sometimes I think I’m okay, but when the tide turns I realise that everything is gone. The once strong, beautiful tower no longer exists; She once was a…
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Stitched Into Conformity
You skim past traffic lights, unshaken by car crashes, Ride countless roller coasters, seeking any sensation. You wait for the window’s reflection to reveal your purpose, Meticulously practising to…
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When You Die
CW: Disturbing When you die and get buried underground, your still, lifeless face will gaze up at your loved ones as they cry and mourn their loss. Some…
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Missed Calls
Would we ever meet again? I know that we disagree, but one day, can we See each other again, after— —A lot of things could happen, That day, I…
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Prometheus
Our being is a harlequin, Shackled to Caucasus. It matters not time nor era, The mountain’s peak, our eternal rest, Where the cycle of infinity ignites into progress…
