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  Living in a Saran-Wrapped Society

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  Everyone is lazy once in a while and cooking dinner is probably the last thing they want to do. So, they opt for the easy way out, pulling out yesterday’s saran-wrapped leftovers. Little do they know that they are actually consuming harmful chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenol A, more comm...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  High Anxiety

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  It's five AM on a Saturday, I woke up with a pull in my chest, And my stomach had twisted into knots, It was clear I wouldn't get any more rest. So I sat up and grabbed my shaking knees, And tucked them under my chin, And I looked up at Billie Joe in my posters, Who gave me a comf...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nonsense

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  I wonder, If I just ranted about some trivial thing, Would I get acknowledged? I wonder, If I wrote about meaningless gibberish, Would I get rewarded? I wonder, If I kept my emotions out of my writing and rambled on like a machine, Would people actually read it? I wonder if peo...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  ¡Viva la Revolución!

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  Give me all reason Time to stop treason And fight our oppressors; We're the lost fighters The horror-bent survivors The cap on the pressure; Hats off to the bleeders Not the bottom feeders That embezzle in our funds; Gotta feel the full pain No matter how insane Not one of you is a ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Anxiety

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  I have anxiety. I feel more stressed than others. I am not weird. I have anxiety. I panic at random moments, sometimes with no decipherable cause. I am not strange. I have anxiety. I see a therapist once every couple weeks to help me through it. I am not aberrant. I have anxiety. ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Walk Away

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  I am a baby born on a warm winter night as the clock strikes twelve. I make my first feeble cries of beginning as my eyes open and take in the world around me. Hands cradle my tiny body and sounds that I cannot understand make themselves evident in the universe. A red, sticky substance is wip...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Wicked

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  People are wicked, When you are different, Life becomes frightening, If you lose hope; Women are dirty, All men are scary, Intentions blur in the broken world. When you're blind, People can mess with your mind; When you're blind, You're destined to fail at some time. Pe...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Unseen

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  Return home through a wide open door To a hallway filled with flames Rush to hide behind school paper chains And chase a future bound in dreams No one really sees the broken tears The well hidden mask of lies Burning blood and troubled minds And the bottle drops from your hand Unseen don&#...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Unknown

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  The young man stood with his midnight dress shoes firmly digging into the vibrant green grass beneath him. With his pale hands clasped firmly behind his back, he slowly knelt on the patch of ground that wasn't covered with dry land's seaweed and smoothed out the brown earth. "Ev...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  This is What it's Like

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  I feel the slightly wet grass on my fingertips as I run my hands through it. My head is tilted to the sky to catch the raindrops in my mouth as they fall one by one. My battered clothes have been replaced by a lovely sea blue dress, whose touch is like the wisps of smoke emanating from candles. I...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Betrayal

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  "All I want to know is why," I said as tears welled up in my eyes.  "Why would you do that?" Don't cry, I chided myself.  If you cry, then she wins, so don't you do it Ev! My former friend, Annie Kepler, stared at me in confusion.  Her icy eyes bore into my ear...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Just Like Life, the Earth Keeps on Moving

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  When I was a child No older than six I used to look up at the sky And wonder why It curved over the horizon I wondered what Being Could have the power to bend such a thing As large and strong as the sky And not ask why It was doing it to begin with But then I left those thoughts behind...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  What Do You Think I Am?

  

  By Nopride4531, Spring Valley, CA

  There used to be a voice in my head That said do what you want and need Don't let others make you agree And bend to what they want you to be But I ignored it And grew up trying to fit But then I realized That I could never Well I don't want fancy clothes And I don't wan...