“More than friends,” they say.

But why is romance the “more?”

They’re both meaningful.

Friends aren’t less valuable.

I think this phrase makes problems....

I’ve only ever seen proposals in movies. Maybe I’m too young of an adult to witness one in real life. I think that kind of stuff is supposed to come in my thirties, when my friends finally find loves that last long enough to commit to.

Unfortunately, I’m in my twenties, the age where everyone tries a dating app at least once. And if you’re not out clubbing to meet someone new, then you’re probabl...

Like a droplet on a window of a car.

Dripping down glass, dripping down bars.

Down,

down,

down!

Words, they drown.

Is the deeper they go, the deeper they mean?

Or is less more, like high-class cuisine?

Fall,

fall,

fall!

Digest it all.

Take a dive

into a poet’s

messy heart.

But look

...

Apparently every princess needs an animal companion. Dacan thought that would be his in, because his cousin, princess Maes, always enjoyed feeding the wildlife. If he could gain her trust as a bird, then all he’d have to do is catch her off guard.

And then what? Well, he doesn’t want to murder her. That’s too extreme. He wouldn’t kill for the throne. If he did, he wouldn’t be fit for it.

He ha...

The 8th Wonder of the World isn’t a place. It’s not something you can visit and take a picture of. Though, there is still an essence of tourism. And it’s fleeting. It’s in the feeling of when a child suddenly realizes they’ve grown tall enough to put the star on top of the Christmas tree. It’s in the feeling of when someone quietly smiles to themselves as they leave the cinema after watching an ...

I hate that you know what I’m talking about.

I never even told you, but you already know, don’t you? They told you because they were “expressing their concerns?”

I used to trust them without a single doubt.

But my privacy was carelessly violated. I should be the one to tell you about it on my own terms.

I don’t want to get so riled up or be so crass.

But “catching you up on all friend group lore...

Your every sentence that trails off makes me think twice.

When we talk like this, I feel like I’m on thin ice.

The string of syllables doesn’t know where to begin.

I tighten my skate laces and then thicken my skin.

Our conversations linger, leaving its imprints.

My shaky arms stick out to maintain my balance.

Years from now I hope that this won’t matter at all.

But now I’m on thin ice, and I’m ...

When Beatrice was seventeen, she was absolutely certain she met the love of her life, despite having only lived 20% of it.

But then they broke up. She spent most of her twenties dreaming about fictional men instead. And when her friends kept encouraging her to get on a dating app, she eventually did, and dated a few people here and there. But nothing lasted long enough.

It was in her thirties wh...

I’m from a big family.

They laugh together, it’s loud.

The sound brings a smile to me.

Being with them makes me proud....

My brother doesn’t want to play.

He’s on his computer every day!

He said, “It can research, buy merch, and even sing.

My computer can do just about anything.”

I stomped my foot and said, “I can do all that too!

Let me try then, I would be anything for you!”

“I don’t think there’s very much that you can do.

You’re no computer, you’re human through and through.”

“I could be a cat or ...