Nothing short of pure horror

Lurking and moving in every corner

Trying to keep my wits about me

Everywhere I look they are all I see

Darkness slowly engulfing my mind

My own thoughts keeping me confined

The time is coming to decide

No where to run, no where to hide

I can feel my mind starting to break

What’s left for the shadows to take...

Silence, again. She sits on the edge of her bed staring at her phone screen. For the past 8 hours her anxiety has felt like bees. Bees living just below the surface of her skin, causing her to feel like her whole body is buzzing. Not her stomach but lower she also has the constant drum of unease. None of this is a feeling associated to the man, who has yet again, made her feel less than. No, this ...

From the distance I could see the brilliance in the fire. I watched as the smoke spread across the sky reaching to fill every possible open space. That’s who I want to be. I want to be the fire. I want to move through life exuding danger and destruction. To be like the smoke, cascading and enveloping with a thickness that burns with every breath. When our eyes meet the next time mine will be so br...