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• Poetry > Free Verse
  the only time i fly

  

  By RiverSong, Baltimore, MD

  the only time i fly is not in school doing math and sports and handling social drama all these silly things that do not matter the only time i fly is not fighting with the people that i love over some silly thing that doesn’t matter the only time i fly is not when i’m lonely and sa...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  The Game of Life

  

  By RiverSong, Baltimore, MD

  When it’s not my turn, I like to close my eyes and fantasize about the world as it used to be. I like to dream about chocolate and riding the school bus and surfing the web and being bored. I want to taste my mother’s burned casseroles again. I even miss my bratty younger sister Suzy. I woul...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Ghosts of Now

  

  By RiverSong, Baltimore, MD

  Now, I’m a whisper. A remnant of times gone by. A footprint on the beach. Now, I’m about to be washed away. Now, I’m fading like the last note of a symphony. I’m an echo, nothing more. Now, before I fade, I want to do— But it’s too late. The time for doing things was over lon...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Desperation

  

  By RiverSong, Baltimore, MD

  The never-ending sunrise of the ocean of the deep protects our quiet, sacred surmise that our souls are ours to keep and so we turn away from night to meet the break of day the lesser ones escape in flight the stronger ones will stay we do not know quite who we are but, rest assured, we onc...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  If You're Like Me

  

  By RiverSong, Baltimore, MD

  If you’re like me (and no one is, not now, not really), you step outside and thoughts run through your head going ninety miles per hour and you stagger a bit, because WHAM!—it’s like getting hit head-on by a speeding train, having all those thoughts at once, you know? And if you’re like me ...