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The Stranger

If you can forgive me.

1 min read

A boy with two teeth sharper than the rest, and hands that had never touched evil (no

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THANK GOD FOR THE COOK

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I couldn’t help staring. She started a little over a month ago. The only server at th

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The One's Who Stood When Told to Kneel.

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They came before the sun rose. The soldier's boots sank into the waterlogged earth

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This Was Something Once

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We laugh, we play, We run around in the sunshine We joke, we kiss, We do all the thi

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The Dreamy Side.

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A temptation on my mind, The possibility of something So, so divine Seems too great t

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My Baby

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My baby and I have a lot in common. Her dark curly hair , her deep brown eyes, her bl

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The Thin Veneer

LunaTheWitch🌒🌕🌘

1 min read

Its used to cover up

To perfect

To fix

To help

To make faultless

This helps

But isn’t enough

Its still faulty

Still broken

Still partial

The thin veener

The thin mask

I hold it

Keep it close

Only to let it down

For the ones I trust...

Poetry

kisses

medwin

1 min read

my eyes were open when i had my first kiss

it had been a surprise truly,

he had tilted my head towards him

and kissed me

my eyes were open,

except i didn’t see the mistake

he tried to put his tongue in my mouth

that’s where i drew the line

(a second line-

he had crossed the first)

nausea turned in my stomach

for he kissed me again

and again,

and four times more

and then more during school

it was h...

Poetry

Big Adventure

Little_Mimi

1 min read

My Ma and Pa had never really had much of anything. They taught us that all we needed was each other’s love.

My house my may broken and empty, but it’s really the adventures that keep you afloat.

I’ve had many adventures here. Like falling on my knees and scraping them, hearing chilling noises during the night, but this isn’t the best of my adventures. Let me tell you about the time I almost d...

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Adventure

The Funnel

Vidam

1 min read

Mara was the first to see the funnel-shaped tree. How we all didn’t spot it at the same time is astonishing. It was such a dark green that it almost looked black in color. In tandem, we skipped toward it as though an invisible being had opened its arms and wrapped them around us. Gina slipped under the narrow end of the funnel tree and then vanished. The rest of us were astonished but for some ...

Fantasy

The Thin Veneer

Invisible poetry 💙

1 min read

A little shy, but always smiling,

A little lost, but always brave,

I laugh, I kiss, I hug.

A little scared, but always curious,

A little hurt, but always good,

I love, I give, I dance.

Little Miss Lonely, always extra!

Ambivalent, Little Miss Vile,

I spit, I scratch, I bite

under the thin veneer....

Poetry

Drama

The Veneer of Me

S.A. STRANGELY

1 min read

I’m protective of what’s beneath—

fragile shell, threatened all the time.

I push away what feels unsafe,

but keep the good locked out the same.

Fear grips like a vice, then strangles—

but I’ve grown satisfied with me.

I’ve learned how to breath again,

and at last, I’m finally free....

Poetry

You

Curdoroyluss

1 min read

My mind

I don’t know what to do with it.

My mind is a maze

With every step, I never know what i’m going to encounter

I never know what thoughts are going to pop in my head

and what emotions are going to unravel through me

My mind is a puzzle, and with each piece a part of the big picture is revealed

My mind is like a tree

There are branches off of thoughts sectioning off of each other

Reaching ...

Poetry

YA fiction

The Thin Veneer

Courtney

1 min read

Smile is shaking, about to crack

and expose the deep hole beneath it.

My glass heart, it beats behind my back.

Smile! It’s shaking, about to crack...

Poetry

Drama

The Thin Veneer

TJ O’Hara

1 min read

Here I stand before you

My thin veneer broken

And all my deepest fears

Sitting in the open

Words at rest, unspoken

A small shattered token

Glancing all around me

I feel my words choke and

Our eyes never meeting

You see my grief soak in

To polished floor, oaken

Flaws hidden now woken

Here I lay upon it

This veneer I’ve chosen

Shattered into pieces

Now I am heartbroken

Tears go up like smoke and

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Poetry

Where Water Never Reaches

Mar

1 min read

I can never forget that night,

the way the blood splattered across the walls, the floor, my hands. I was drenched in it from head to toe, but in the moment, I didn’t stop. I couldn’t. Every stab felt like releasing something I had been holding inside for years: anger, fear, resentment. All of it poured out through the blade.

People always told me to stay quiet, to endure, to wait for things to “g...

Horror

Thriller