“Oh god. Are you serious? No. No! I just- Why do you have to do this to me?”

“I mean it, I love you!”  He responds.

“Wipe that grin off your face. Do you have any idea how much shit you just got me into?”

“But you feel the same way, right? I mean I see the way that you look at me.”

“Jesus, Mark, stop! Nevermind, I’ll do the talking.”

There’s a long, sullen silence. Mark sighs, looking up at the c...

Now here we are, the end of May with nowhere to go but a summer full of new adventures. Where will we go on vacation this year? Dad hasn’t said, but I’m sure it’s going to be a fun time. I’ll be able to see my friends a lot more too, especially with Adam moving next door last month. I can play basketball with my new hoop, or I can stay home and get on the game with some of my friends that have mov...

Allow us to introduce a lovely gnomish gentleman by the name of-well... Gnomish names much too closely resemble elvish names, and if you know anything about elves, you know how long winded they can be. So let’s stick with David for now. David is much like the forest gnomes you’ll see decorating a lawn or selling prepackaged cookies, except he is a living and breathing creature that gets hungry, th...

The smoky air coalesces to a point

Stretching against the frame of your body

Pulling you into the abyss

To look into its eyes is to look into yourself

The emptiness of nothingness

Cloaking the world against the light

These obsidian jewels glinting in its contrast

Shimmering on the edges.

They start to shift and morph,

Twisting and snapping at their hinges

The pandora’s box unstitching itself from...

This man, 5’9, brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a sweatshirt and some jogging sweats, is your protagonist. His name is Greg. Do try to behave and be nice to him. Greg, you may imagine by his name, is some regular dude with a regular life. That was true until today: today he is now a contestant of the Hunger Games. 

Greg has been given a set of steps to follow as he embarks on his journey into this...

SCENE 1:

[_In a hospital birthing room. It has all of the beeping and monitors that come from a normal hospital room, but much larger and with a large white board with all of the measurements required for a birth. There are two boxes at the bottom that say “Epidural” and “No Epidural” with the epidural box checked. There is an array of circles with centimeter measurements on them labeled above as...

When I look in the mirror 

I address the wear on my face

Lines that have grown

Sewn into my visage

Hewn into my being

I’ve smiled many smiles

And the miles that I’ve walked

Have carried me to where I am now

When I look in the mirror

I remember my regrets

The things that I wish I had done

The things that I wish I hadn’t

The things that keep me up at night

The things that hold me restless

Things th...

I’m an 8th grade English teacher. Most of my days are pretty simple. I park my car in the employee parking lot behind the school in a spot that smells suspiciously like weed most of the time. I drink my third cup of coffee this morning in a to-go mug that I kept from my wife and I’s honeymoon at Disney World. I take the same deep breath that I always do before I start the day: one that is packed w...

Mary,

I’ve decided that I’m going to leave. Before you think anything of me, I want you to know that you didn’t do anything wrong. I know you’ll still think that, but know that it’s not true. Have you ever had this feeling in your gut that something was… off? Like you were so close to the right thing but you couldn’t quite get to it? It’s like what Sam said the other day: “When you know it’s righ...

The story goes that there were two people locked in cages next to each other. Both of them were heavily laden in chains and bonds, locked into one another. The man on the right was smiling and breathed lightly with the breeze, the other was sullen and had a heavy tone as he gasped for air. The smiling man asked the other: 

“What are you in for?”

“Theft, destruction of property, and manslaughter.”

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