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- Nonfiction > Personal Experience
It really doesn’t take much. It can come from a comment, an image, even a whisper from my mind. It doesn’t take much for me to come undone. I will be smiling one moment, eyes disappearing under my crinkles, lips upturned into a goofy grin. But with a sudden change of heart, my smile will fa... - Poetry > Free VerseHave you ever felt like it would be easier to run away? To leave everything that is plaguing you behind – all your worries, and thoughts, and failings¬– and just visit a different state of mind? It can take you to actual locations such as the grimy, bustling streets of New York. It can be a p...
- Poetry > All PoetryAs human beings, we should feel grateful towards the media today. It gives conscience a break and kindly tells us what to do and say. Since actually getting to know a person is such chore, The media simply tells us: he’s too fat, she’s too ugly, and they’re too poor. Not only that, it help...
- Poetry > Free VerseI remember the first time I gave my cat a handful of catnip. He bounced up to me and immediately nuzzled his pink, wet nose into my open palm. As I spread the earthy, aromatic leaves onto the ground, he fell deeper into his ecstasy, rubbing his side onto the spread of dusty greens. I heard his lo...
- Nonfiction > Personal ExperienceI've always wanted to thank my parents, and for all they have done for me. Mom and Dad immigrated to the United States in their youth, carrying me in their arms. Possessing only a couple hundred dollars, they slaved away during their remaining twenties in order to send me to school. Mom worked ...
- Poetry > Free VerseI saw her, that girl with the dusty clothes, the one with raven hair so black that it looks blue, go into the classroom. People say that she got kicked out of her house when she was fifteen, that she was arrested for selling drugs, that she spends her nights in the alleys. But I saw her go int...
- Poetry > Free VerseDear Heartbreaker, I just wanted to ask why in the world did you talk to me out of the blue like that? And make me fall in love with you so badly that I would stay up until three in the morning just to talk to you? And wait for your texts and you calls and you smiles? Why did you take me by t...
- Poetry > Free VerseI bet you ten dollars that you'd never see that the reason for my insanity is because I'm so in love with you. You tell me every little detail about her, and I know how you love little details. I know I'll never be as perfect as she is to you. But she's not the one who s...
- Poetry > Free VerseWhen I tell society that I want to be a journalist, they laugh. they scoff. they roll their eyes. and say, "Why? You could be a successful physicist professor engineer doctor surgeon like I am." Then, all of a sudden, they shun me. They tell me that a writer dies penniless. T...
- Poetry > Free VerseToday is my turn. I must stand in front of my myriad classmates and deliver a speech. Well, deliver or die, that is. I must endure what will probably be the most horrifying 30 minutes of my teenage life. Even before the torture session begins My hot blood rushes to my neck, Permeates my c...
- Poetry > All Poetry“How did you create such a brilliant solution?” asks society around you. “Was it whispered in your ear?” “Did you gulp down a black art potion, and did your mind grow clear?” “Did you read a thousand books?” “Or rather, write them all?” “Were you “gifted”, “brill...
- Fiction > Realistic FictionMy name is Suk Lee, and I am finally a citizen of the United States. I have endured years of horror, silence, and gruesome deaths to come to this country that I now call home. It’s true, I was not born on U.S. soil, nor have I spent my childhood here; my origin comes from a Communist country, Nort...
