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• Fiction > Romance
  First Kiss

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ

  His thumb lightly grazed over the bruise on my cheek, taking care not to apply any pressure on it. I relaxed at his touch, leaning into it, craving more. He leaned close, my reflection staring back at me from his dark, smiling eyes. I looked…expectant. A hint of a smile graced his lips and I was...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  I Need Not To Eat

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ

  I need to not eat. I need to be able to starve myself into oblivion because I cannot bear the guilt and pain that eating causes me. Oh, but I must eat, for I love it and it nourishes me; giving me the semblance of comfort and the feeling that everything will be all right. Until it begins to fill...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Infused

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ

  My heart aches with the emotions of others, emotions that have nothing to do with me but ones that I cannot seem to block out. These are not mine, these emotions, these foreign things. I did not ask for them. I do not want them. But I feel them nonetheless and I despise those people for it. I do...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fact or Fiction

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ

  As I sit and write this, good things are going on in the world. People playing with recently opened presents, enjoying being together, nice and warm, while a snow storm roars outside. As I sit and write this I am warm and comfortable in new pajamas in my newly decorated room listening to music...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Is it possible?

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ

  Is it possible to feel so alone in a house full of people? Is it possible to feel deeply, inconsolably sad one minute and be perfectly fine the next? Is it possible to hide your real self so completely that even you’ve forgotten where you hid it? Is it possible to know that your mind is ...
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  Photo > Photographs
  

  Muses come in all sizes

  

  By jkilmer, Cherry Hill, NJ