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#16021voted by our readers
By daniellemarie13 GOLD
Escondido, California

Everyone has an irrational fear of the dark. Not many are truly comfortable sitting cold and alone in the dark This fear of not knowing your surroundings holds many in it’s grasp...
daniellemarie13 GOLD, Escondido, California
10 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.” ~ Doctor Who


#16022 Poetry
By AddisoMLeo GOLD
Crest Hill, Illinois
AddisoMLeo GOLD, Crest Hill, Illinois
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Such a cruel boy. Telling me to dream one more time. I thought I was satisfied because my dream had come true... And I'd told myself it was enough... Yet here you are, watering this withered heart again."

#16023 Poetry
By Descant GOLD
Huntington Beach, California
Descant GOLD, Huntington Beach, California
15 articles 40 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened" –Albert Camus

#16024 Poetry
By Anonymous
#16025 Poetry
By smurphs PLATINUM
Fairfield, Connecticut
smurphs PLATINUM, Fairfield, Connecticut
37 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#16026 Poetry
Illswallowyouwhole SILVER, Juneau, Alaska
9 articles 3 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"He offered her the world. She said she had her own."

#16027 Poetry
By Alisha Goldrup SILVER
Freeport, Maine
Alisha Goldrup SILVER, Freeport, Maine
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#16028 Poetry
Padoodallee GOLD, Haven, Kansas
13 articles 0 photos 120 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelou

#16029 Poetry
By Anonymous
#16030 Poetry
By Anonymous