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  What is Love?

  

  By checkeredpaint, Santa Ana, CA

  What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me.) Love is getting frustrated when you can’t do anything for the other, no matter how much you want, to the point where you just want to punch walls and kick buildings, to the point where you want to destroy something beautiful, just to make the other even...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  -Aholic

  

  By checkeredpaint, Santa Ana, CA

  My fingers itch, and my body physically aches for just a touch. Time passes by at breakneck speed, yet a snail could win the race. A million thousand hundred thoughts suddenly burst through my mind, but only a few stand prevalent: I hate it, I want it, I need it, <i>where is it?</i> I kn...
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  Persona

  

  By checkeredpaint, Santa Ana, CA

  When the world loses color before your very eyes, metaphorically of course, you have no idea what to do, literally. The only colors left are red and grey and black, with smidges of white, but to be fair, the last three aren’t even colors. They’re shades, and three years of art are more than enou...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Porcelain Perfection

  

  By checkeredpaint, Santa Ana, CA

  Do you believe in forever? Your mind constantly reels back to that one question, your life nearly revolving around it. These days, at least. Those not-so-distant memories of infinite happiness, stretching to the ends of the world fly into your mind as you reminisce about when nothing felt like it...