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  A Series of Unfortunate Events (In A Coffee Shop)

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  It’s time to open. I touch one hand to my forehead and run the other through my curls and stand up. I walk slowly to the glass door and unlock it from the inside. I flip the red, beckoning sign to Open and move back behind the counter, flicking a switch to light the place by the door. I turn the s...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  How Much Time Do We Have?

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  “What do you think of death?” “I don’t.” “Never?” “Rarely.” “Rarely?” “Never. Why?” His frosty blue eyes narrowed, thick eyebrows scrunching together. I looked away. “Just wondering.” Not really though. Why don’t I just tell him? “Well, what do...
• Fiction > Scripts & Plays
  Playback

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  “Hey, this is Danae Neill. Sorry I can’t come to the phone right now! Leave a message and I’ll be sure to get back to you!” Playback: “Hey” [car honking] “it’s me. I missed you today. Call me back when you get the chance?” Playback: “It’s Grant again. Did your meeting ge...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Dandelions

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  I am running through a field of flowers- dandelions, I think- thousands of them, bending nobly at the tops of their pale stems, fighting to stand up against the callous wind that seems to keep blowing me back to where I came from. I am running, unwittingly kicking up the flowers while they strug...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Basically Black and White

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  She doesn’t smile. Not really. You can’t see it here, but she has the most cynical dark, almond eyes, from far too many long nights. They should be encircled by indistinct shadows of gray, in a sharp dissimilarity from her moon colored face, but close in comparison with her hollow cheeks- but th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Redeeming Qualities

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  wayward schoolboy redhead crew-cut bowlegs bowtie gray-eyed little-boy spearmint lip-gloss firecrackers bear-hug honeydew honeysuckle sunflower bluebells grassland highland uphill walkways back-road leaf-mold whitewash picket-fence open-arms textbooks sch...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Captain

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  O Captain, My Captain! I stand up on a plain oak desk And denote that I need you to stay O Captain, My Captain I tap my fingers to Morse code In a proclamation my spontaneity Please say you heard Please say you understood Because the spaces in your teeth don’t bare any words And I can’t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Looking Into Infinity

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  Rumors and twitters We sneak onto hushed grounds A group of a dozen We slip off heavy shoes and Our toes graze cool grass We loll our heads back And stare up And are swallowed by the sky- By the stars that mingle in their constellations Like the ivory beads on my dress and The glistening...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  (I Wish I Could) Stay A Little While Longer

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  I always wanted more time To watch the street performers and mimes, But mom and dad would Take my hand and drag Me further down the street- We had people to meet. The human clock- the recession of a nation, The wasted days and the restless nights; The lack of focus feeding on the momentu...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  His Blinking Sounds Like Bass Drums

  

  By SpontaneousDarling, Chesterfield, MO

  Pale boy is better than you Pale boy Ash-white boy With his soft jacket that blazes And his white hands And his grand smile- oh his grand smile- It reflects off of and scorches your retinas And turns your insides rotten It corrodes them He’s better than us, the Ginger boy And he sm...