As I hand my ticket to the usher I realize we are paying admission to a world that does not exist, but then I remember, what we have is real so I hold my tongue and walk right in. In a room filled with faceless shadows the light hits you just right, skipping over your cheek bones and into your eyes, only to bounce off and into mine. In a room ( Read more... )

Graduating from high school is a strange time in a person's life, so many new things all at once. Were thrown into a sea of churning waters filled with all sorts of new responsibilities and experiences that are so foreign to us we sometimes find ourselves overwhelmed by it all. Some dig in to our parents basements never to be seen or heard from ( Read more... )

"i won't break. how could they break me? what could they possibly do? they've taken everything, everything. my mother and father rest in pieces against the bank of a muddy ditch, my brother hangs from a butchers hook in the middle of town, my home lays in ashen ruins, a testament to what my life has become. no, they have nothing left to take, and ( Read more... )

"whatever happens do not allow yourself to be captured, a million men sleep soundly tonight, but soon they will crash upon stormy shores. their ascension must be kept secret, do not let their crusade be cut short, do not let those brave men fall stricken and sink into the sea, living just long enough to watch as the life inside them seeps out and ( Read more... )

full force failure and my fruition's falling through, guiding light losing its fight and my contention's losing truth. faking flight to convince my mind that it will all be over soon, but before my eyes the sun came up and im still pacing round the room. i found the folio filled with pictures, some of him and some of you, in that moment i forgot ( Read more... )

in a world where indifference is common law the search for affinity can be a losing battle. when the cost of intimacy has been marked down and priced to clear (quarters in the jukebox, double jacks and a export a gold to seal the deal), its nice to know that compatibility does exist, some things cannot be bought, there is true love. we are ( Read more... )

i was a modern day alchemist, trying to turn lead into gold, trying to turn myself into something i was not. in a room of chemicals and calculations i toiled endlessly to become something i could never be. i wanted to become someone who could stand to face my reflection. 
intravenous injections, that were meant to make me beautiful. oral medications ( Read more... )

Guanine and Cytosine, Adenine and Thymine, fitted together in perfect combination, fallen into place like perfect pieces to a perfect puzzle. Cardboard cut outs of rounded shapes, balled and budding out from their rectangular borders, each one with a counterpart, each one with a purpose. Jig saw puzzle pieces destined for one another, existing only ( Read more... )

carve it into stone, like our plans falling through; your eyes may wander, but im not to blame
write it out on paper, like a love note folded in two; now you start to wonder, why you even came
spell it out slow, remember who came to who; cant help but wonder, will it ever be the same?

flipping through the pages, like some old photo album from the ( Read more... )

she stepped into the room and carefully closed the door behind her. the first thing she noticed was the smell of ciggarettes and a thin blue haze throughout the room. on the bedside table there was a silver ewer alongside a pair of brass cups. she went to it and filled one to its brim. shakingly she brought the cup to her lips. unable to keep still ( Read more... )