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  I'll Stay

  

  By eileentotheleft, Los Alamos, NM

  This tree, large and warping with age droops slightly as if to say, "I'll protect you." These dusty brown branches, drowning in transparent, grass-green leaves stretch as if to say, "I'm happy here." Leaves, quietly rustling- branches, silently swaying eas...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Slipping

  

  By eileentotheleft, Los Alamos, NM

  Slipping. Falling. Creeping into a sweet embrace. So comfortable, yet so unknown. Smiling. Blushing. Talking ourselves into familiarity. You say the things my heart wishes to express. Your arms convince me, quietly, Into their soft, loving grasp. Simply there to make me feel loved. Yo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Water Games

  

  By eileentotheleft, Los Alamos, NM

  Drowning. Drowning into the ocean of cold, treacherous sorrow. Loneliness- colder than the waters of my sadness. Struggling to reach the top. What will greet me when I surface? Love, Happiness, Acceptance? Fear, Torment, Grief? All they do is use me. Do I surface, floundering to th...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Schizophrenic Cinderella (As told by Lenny, the lizard from the Bronx.)

  

  By eileentotheleft, Los Alamos, NM

  It all started one Saturday night. There I was, sitting in my little edge of the windowsill. It is my favorite place to be, after all. Basking in the sun like all lizards do. Ahh, how peaceful. Anyway, I’m just sitting calmly on my windowsill when my schizophrenic housemate (she thinks th...