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  The Colors of a One-Way Street

  

  By stargrl, Ballston Lake, NY

  Black… the color of the pavement where I’m laying Yellow… the color of the line your car crossed Blue… the color you wore as you drove your car Green… the color that I associate with my love for you Gray… the color of your eyes that I stare into endlessly every day Brown… the colo...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  Time Travel Machine No. 4

  

  By stargrl, Ballston Lake, NY

  October 23, 2030 Alice sat straight up in her bed and turned on the light next to her. Had it all been a dream? The scratch marks on the now-open chest of drawers suggested otherwise, but her rational brain refused to believe it was true. She just couldn’t believe what had happened. The way...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  What is Grass?

  

  By stargrl, Ballston Lake, NY

  What is grass? Is it the symbol of everlasting growth? Persevering through all seasons Trying to stay green? Or maybe the vast expanse, A green sea Populated by creeping and crawling insects, Is purely another of the Often overlooked Everyday beauties. In some places grass is in abundan...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Precious Wars

  

  By stargrl, Ballston Lake, NY

  They are already training Not even men, Still ready to Lay down their lives It started when they were five “Daddy, I want to hunt” So they learned How to hold the Guns Shooting animals Why not start shooting humans? These are my friends Sent out by America To come back in an ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Goldman's Ravine

  

  By stargrl, Ballston Lake, NY

  I am ready to die. The rope isn’t coiled under my bed. The hook isn’t on my ceiling. The pills aren’t in my closet. But I have a car. A beautiful new cerulean blue Lexus. Goldman’s Ravine is next to the Interstate. And I have a plan. A beautiful plan, filled with poetic justice. I need to...