Random people: Freedom
She still smiles when she listens to music, that’s how she knows she is still alive inside. That’s how she knows deep down her soul is still the way it used to be. That’s how she knows she still has a chance at life. Sometimes she wonders if she wants to have a chance. Maybe it would be easier if…
The Atlantic Block: We all come with baggage duct-taped to our wrists. The past makes it...
We all come with baggage duct-taped to our wrists. The past makes it possible to come to dinner with peeling calluses, filthy with the knowledge of where we came from. We enter each other shamelessly, without excuse, without elegance tailored falsely in pretense. Some of us cannot bow away from a…
pale fire: I bruise easily. Apply pressure to your fingertips when holding me and...
I bruise easily. Apply pressure to your fingertips when holding me and you’ll mark me. My mother had taken me down lengthy lists of doctors when I was young trying to find out why. She’s fair-skinned, thin-skinned, clumsy and God knows what else they sold her, but she purchased it all and up’d my…
