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• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Realization

  

  By EmilyClark, Wayne, PA

  She said that she would tie my lips together with a noose if she had to because my breathing was like white wine spilled down her blouse. It hung there ugly and tainted, left over from the day. She said that she used to watch it grow wider and wider until it swallowed her whole. She told me that she...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  When You Left

  

  By EmilyClark, Wayne, PA

  When you left, it wasn't like they said The sky didn't fall and break into little pieces The rain didn't shed tears that tripped down the window panes and the night wasn't like a suffocating blanket that prodded at the inner recesses of my soul When you left, it was like a small splinter i...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Man in the Moon

  

  By EmilyClark, Wayne, PA

  Man in the Moon I fell in love with the Man in the Moon And all he had to offer The silver luminous rays that came Out the tips of his fingers His eyes were pale like dandelion’s age And his skin was milky white An angular frame like a toothpick Concealed by Night And how Night was t...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  A Great Wave

  

  By EmilyClark, Wayne, PA

  It was the April of 1865 when I first arrived in America. I had departed from a small, cramped boat where hundreds of Chinese were forced into a tiny space. We had been hired by the Central Pacific, a company who needed diligent laborers to work on their new project-the Transcontinental Railroad. Th...