A "WRIGHT"ER'S LIFE

December 26th The neighbor girl in her sweater—creamy white, just a shade or two lighter than her skin— sitting on her front porch steps....

There’s a map of the life the storyteller lived littered across his grave. Forget-me-nots begged him to return. Half-bloomed and plucked...

The stars fell out of the heavens, tumbling from their seats in the velvet black sky. They slipped below the backdrop of glowing tents...

In all her dreams she drowned. Perhaps they had been nightmares, once. The overwhelming pressure in her chest, the blurry vision, the...

“Origin” To rise. Everything has risen from stars, dust, hope. That man on the street, crashing to his knees with his bottle and his...

I imagine my life in the eyes of a god Fleeting Small Magic I watch infinity unfold in the seas and I see a god’s tears And I stare at...

The woman on her deathbed hovered there for years. Her white blonde hair faded to wisps so fine, they almost weren’t there. Her eyes,...

They met outside the hotel, in the pouring rain, and embraced. Awkward laughter tumbled from their lips as they greeted each other, and...

"If this whale’s song is higher than all the others, can anyone hear him? Is all his singing for naught, his voice drifting slowly into...

The first time we traveled through time, it was an accident. He was getting rid of old documents. His marriage certificate from his first...

I’ve always felt half strangled. There’s smoke creeping under the door when I sleep and there are flames licking their way up every exit...

A true pyro watches their art. Flames are a masterpiece. Flames are music notes, floating out on smoke and clinging to your clothes,...

Loneliness started with the Gods. She crept behind them like a shadow. Watching them, admiring them…. Loving them. She reveled in their...

I am fascinated by people and the way they live and breathe so effortlessly. I like to watch them dance— twirling dipping sinking inside...