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October 23, 2017
In an industry saturated with franchises and sequels (a tired complaint, but true nonetheless), Blade Runner 2049 may simply appear to be the next in an endless slough of uninspired cash-grabs. The onslaught of big-budget and often mind-numbing blockbusters has now bec...
October 23, 2017
Out of all the types of fiction out there, one genre has always been able to capture my attention better than any other. Now, I’m going to try to explain why. It is the masterpiece of the human imagination, testament to storytelling creativity, and obsession of nerds a...
October 15, 2017
The first time she felt his hands on her
She was 11
Chubby cheeked and wide eyed.
Excited.
His hands ran through her hair
Pulling.
Onto her skin,
Slapping.
His body on top of her,
Suffocating.
The next time she felt similar hands
She was 18
Contoured cheeks with “blow job eyes”
Jad...
October 15, 2017
Mommy have you been drinking again?
Mommy I’ve been waiting for you where have you been?
I’ve been sitting by the window and calling on the phone
Waiting for someone to finally come home
Mommy I’ve been waiting
Waiting here all alone
Daddy’s in the kitchen
He said he don’t lo...
October 15, 2017
It would be deemed inappropriate to harp on in a eulogy about the sheen of her hair or the deep blue of her eyes, but it is very good to say she had this funny way of saying coffee. If this bittersweet aside is craftily inserted in between heartfelt examples of the lev...
October 15, 2017
Listen, because this is where the story begins.
Storytelling usually consists of characters. Sometimes they call it fiction, or literature. Characters do things, some writers insist on putting their characters in a tree and throwing rocks at them. Some characters are s...
October 14, 2017
I’m laying down
tonight,
alone in my room
drinking the
cheapest bottle
I can afford
with the records
spinning for me
& I can’t believe
you aren’t here
listening to
Stevie Nicks
because we both thought
she sounded
the best at this time of year
& you are not
around the corner
or alive
som...
October 14, 2017
Blue angel watch me
You looked so nice in the snow
But where are you now?
You were seventeen
Two years, I am now nineteen
You’re still seventeen
Sometimes I can think
Things were better off this way
I know I am wrong
October 14, 2017
my friend & my lover
are
two friends & lovers
who
cared
less
about the honey
dripping from me
and let
the bees sting
for years how could they
forget
I was once
their queen?
October 10, 2017
Sometimes we need a slap in the face by someone that loves us in order to get the hint that we’ve been screwing up for a while. This is my tough love to you on how to become a better writer. Of course you can always just read this, call it bullshit and then exit out of...
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