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  **Insert Toxic Habit Here**

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  A smelly security blanket is wrapped around you. A heavy, dark colored quilt. It’s always lingering, dragging behind you, collecting dirt. Or sometimes its tied around your neck like a cape. That cape gets stepped on, strangling you into believing or not believing what you should and should ...
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  Circles

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  Seasons come and seasons go Fashion changes, and your tastes as well. Emotions are like a tsunami- one minute calm, then they begin to recede deep into my mind, only to explode from my heart- attacking all neighboring villagers… and shattering, splintering my own heart along with it. S...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Uninvited Necklace

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  oH the irony- oF a cat that refuses to meow, a dog that would rather curl in a ball than chase after a cat. oF excitement, that quickly is squashed by the logic that pours on top, icing this cake with realism and a cherry on top- stress. The cake is completed, yet the residue of icing glops...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Shattered Hearts

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  Expectations from unknown creatures lurking in the shadows, thinking they are dancing in the sunshine. Delicately dance across shattered hearts. You don’t want shards of glass splintered into your dance shoes. Expect nothing less if you decide to tromp through someone else’s meadow. You donâ...
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  The Other Side

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  Enough. I've had enough reading articles about how Christians are homophobic, sexists, bullies, manipulators, liars and cheaters, without hearing the other side. This is the other side. In every religion, majority, culture, demographic, community, group, minority and clique there are homophobi...
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  Folded Wings

  By Rachel B., Rodeo, CA

  Not six inches from my foot, a gorgeous Monarch butterfly flaps its wings slowly, soaking in the sun. She’s not afraid of me; her wings are quick and she trusts her abilities. A butterfly lives a whole stage of life as a lethargic, hungry caterpillar, bound to the ground. A caterpillar can only s...