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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Mohawk

  

  By scrugez, South Setauket, NY

  “It’s just hair.” That was my defense, my justification to the widened eyes and dropped jaws. When people asked how I could do it – how I could go from my socially acceptable, shoulder-length hair to a mohawk – my response was always the same: “It’s just hair.” In my innocent, un...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Bloodshot Eyes and Long, Black Ties

  

  By scrugez, South Setauket, NY

  So you sit on the back step of the catering hall, drinking another glass of wine you stole from the kitchen when Roberto wasn’t looking, and you say the words. “Rejected,” you say, “rejected, rejected, rejected.” You look at her and it hurts; you physically ache from her beauty, but you ca...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Medical Dictionary

  

  By scrugez, South Setauket, NY

  We love you more than you know. We love you so much it’s pouring out of us (but not like a waterfall) it’s more like a severed artery because it’s ugly and strong and pulsing and spurting and it hurts it hurts so deeply and other people can’t bear to watch it unless they’re train...
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  Guide > College Essays
  It's Just Hair or You're Just Ignorant

  

  By scrugez, South Setauket, NY

  “It’s just hair.” That was my defense, my justification to the widened eyes and dropped jaws. When people asked how I could do it - how I could go from my socially acceptable, shoulder-length hair to a mohawk - my response was always the same: “It’s just hair.” In my innocent, una...