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  My Traitor Inside

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL

  There's this thing, This creature, A traitor inside my mind. It's intention was not vengeance or To take me down from the inside. It meant to help, To cope with the life I was given. It's a complex seed That was planted long ago And then grew into a weed. Un...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  You probably don't even wanna read this

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL

  Is it really this difficult to think? I have so many ideas stuck in my head that are trying to claw their way out. I never know how to put it in words because usually my mind has hardly found the words to make it process. Does that make sense? I wish I didn’t have to write with my hands. Wouldn’...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Beautiful

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL

  I sit and listen, To the trees who whisper, and To the chime’s song that softens. To the passing buzz of bees, To the music of birds. I sit and watch, The dancing flowers, And shimmering dew. The leaves who abandon home, And the innocent bunnies who pass. I sit and feel, The cool br...
• Fiction > Romance
  A Promise He Couldn't Keep

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL

  “Warner!” I cried out as he began to walk away from me. I shuddered from the cold winter air as it made its way down my back. He turned back towards me, his bag around his shoulder. His handsome face smiling back at me; trying to calm my nerves. I was only twenty and he was three years older ...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  A Moonlight Change

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL

  Change. I hate it, but it’s me. No matter where I am, or who I am with, change is afoot. As midnight gains on me I retreat to the recesses of a nearby cave. Maybe it’ll be safer here, I think to myself. But I know it’s a lie, because change is growing nearer every second. I know when it comes ...
• Video > Filmmaking
  

  The Blue Rose

  

  By Lanieloo, Bloomington, IL