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The day that ice falls by my house Will be the day of purest joy Not such a thing could quite compare To the splendor such employs My life has too filled with heat Far too much sunny bliss The blinding sun, it never fails A locked, eternal kiss California’s said to be A lovely place t... - Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyThe ground blurs underneath my feet as I race over the field, my feet pushing hard over the dry patches of wintertime ground. Cold dry air stings my face and my lungs begin to cramp with pain as I pile the pressure onto my legs, desperately sprinting to put distance between myself and my pursuer. As...
- Poetry > BalladCrimson is passion and love and desire Grey is modesty, dignity, sadness and tire Orange warmth and flamboyancy, raging with bright Yellow is illness and hazard, but hope, joy and light Green is healthy and lucky and the color of Earth Also youth and renewal, and a symbol of birth Blue is a ...
- Poetry > BalladA crystal flower caked in mud Weeds outgrow a fresh green bus Threads of gold a knotted mess A butterfly an ugly pest The world today is harsh and cruel With beauty stamped down into gruel Serenity strangled by the neck Delicacy a horrid wreck Have you seen untouched landscape? Unhinder...
- Poetry > BalladTwo o clock in the afternoon Tick, tick, tick He waits patiently in the room Click, click, click The candles snuffed, the curtains shut Black, black, black A blade of all the most fearsome cut Hack, hack, hack The doorbell rings, some voices heard Leave, leave, leave He stands are raises u...
- Fiction > Realistic FictionI refresh my browser page again, tapping my fingers nervously as it loads. There’s been no change. You continue to keep me in suspense. You said “maybe” only a few hours ago, but I feel as though I’ve been waiting for weeks. I want you to accept this. I want to know things are all right b...
- Poetry > BalladThe rose of green shines as a queen With emerald luster petals gleam A subtle beauty few have seen The awe that is a rose of green Angelic love, so clear and clean Romantic as an ocean scene With beauty stolen from a dream Breathtaking is the rose of green. Dainty as a diamond dream Bri...
- Poetry > Free VerseFire devours It crawls slowly, patiently along its prey, licking up the helpless matter Wafes of flames lap out gracefully, claiming what lies ahead as their own So fluid, so graceful, so lovely, entrancing, enchanting, endearing… The bright, inviting light glows with warmth shining with welc...
- Nonfiction > Personal Experiencex. y. 1 484, 489457, 92, 6, 3, 13. Squared, cubed, the power of 8. a squared times b to the power of 5. Quotient. Polynomial. Bi, tri, poly, mono. Supercalifradjalisticexpealadocious. The square root of mars divided by the time vortex. The square of pi times 7 and factored into 9. Nonsense! Absu...
- Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyLife has given me lemons. I’ve made all of my lemonade. What now? There’s nothing left. There’s coffee left. Hot, black coffee. Searing my throat, bringing tears to my eyes with ferocious bitterness, filling my body with black. Coffee is meant to be drunk grimly, without a smile. I surely h...
- Poetry > BalladI miss my old sadness I miss the emotional whirlwind I miss when my thoughts and feelings were rampant I miss the challenge of trying to mend I’m happy now; all my problems resolved All of my problems except for one This problem stems from a life that’s so boring A life in green meadows...
- Nonfiction > Personal Experience“You’re crazy for waking up early when there’s no school”, they said. “Why don’t you get out of the house, get a life?” they ask. “That sounds so boring and dull”, they said. And I smile. They can critique all they want, but it won’t make a difference. They’ve nev...
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- Fiction > RomanceIf you are reading this paper, I am dead. As I write, I have mere hours to live. Only hours more to spend in this dark, closed room before I will feel the cold metal against my throat and the warm gush of blood that must follow. The date is set. My end awaits. However cruel my fate will prove to ...
- Fiction > RomanceSome things have no end. The sky, for instance, has no end. Time has no end. Numbers have no end. My loneliness has no end. The sky is gray today. Sun blocked out by the rolling charcoal clouds. There’s not enough light here- not in the sky, not in my soul. The clouds forever loom above me,...
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- Poetry > Free VerseCertain things in life are perfect But no one cares about those I don’t care about the clear blue sky or a fresh fluffy bathrobe Boring I care about the perfectly imperfect I care when hearts are broken and lives are changed I care when there is pain and death; don’t we all? When things a...
- Poetry > All PoetrySoaked in his own blood Shot with his own gun Stabbed with his own knife Beaten in his own fight Traitorous, murderous, treacherous schemes Turned against him and painted the sad, bloody scene A friend turn and snatched the knife from his own belt While his back turned away, the blow to him...
- Fiction > Realistic Fiction“Wall”, I said, to the tall, stone wall. “Why do you stand there, as you do? Why do you sit so still and never move? Why do you do what you do?” The wall said nothing. I walked away. The next day, I returned. The wall was still there. “Wall”, I said. “You are still here. I hav...
- Poetry > Free VerseYou asked me to dance with you And I said yes You took my hand, led me out to the floor And we danced You said I looked beautiful And I blushed pink I told you, you looked better, and you said Not possible The instruments sang to us Us, side by side Your hand on my waist, mine on your shou...
- Poetry > BalladStanding in the room alone Well out of social dancing zone Lights are flashing, music pounding The drumming in my head confounds me I regret the decision to come to this place I see not a single familiar face Strangers swarm all around No advice on what to do is found I should have just ...
- Poetry > BalladWinds whip swirls of ice around Tossing snow up from the ground Blue skies covered up in grey But despite the drear, our moods stay gay The air is cold with chilly bite Freezing up some icy sights The pine trees are all capped in snow that glitters and sparkles, so white it glows A stea...
