Cinematic light illuminates her face, revealing the onset of tears slowly sliding down the puffy skin of her cheeks like silver raindrops gliding down a passenger window on a dreary inclement day She used to savor those bleak days— and wrap herself up in a blanket of melancholy, enveloped by the Earth’s dismal mood Back […]
concrete my. mornings of smog sun and litter air, my name concrete. like sitting still with liver pigeons on lakes of tar, the sun is no pretty, anymore a scar, fire is sweat dripping to the chest. concrete eyes and a mug of unibrow judgment, there is no return to a time of label, highways […]
It was unusually sunny for a Bavarian winter. The sky was a pale blue, and faint gusts of wind blew across the grounds. I had goosebumps throughout the afternoon, but this time the cold was not to blame. Our tour group was just under twenty-five. As we approached the gate with speaker devices around our […]
Smoke danced around your lips as I watched you in awe, the half-lit joint in your fingers immediately enticing me, and I couldn’t help but wonder. My brain was already foggy, weaving in and out of sobriety like our relationship. Friendship and something more clashed ruthlessly in my mind. I couldn’t help but clutch your […]
Normal People by Sally Rooney follows the on-and-off relationship between main characters Connell and Marianne from their final year of high school in a small town in Ireland to their time at Trinity College in Dublin. Connell is a popular high school athlete from a working-class family who is struggling to find his place in […]
As the weather warms up and the days turn longer, there is no better time to pick up a nice book. If you are looking for a heartwarming contemporary romance to enjoy at the beach, look no further. True to its name, Beach Read by Emily Henry is a novel that perfectly captures the essence […]
‘“She wanted to warm herself,’ the people said. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, and how happily she had gone…” —Hans Christian Andersen On a cold winter’s evening, the last of the year, she finds herself wandering about the city barefoot, penniless. Only a handful of matches to sell. No one […]
“So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.” (Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 780-785) I’m blamed for the demise of my sex: the sex […]
Heat screams with no place to hide, Spewing, steaming, pushing, stewing— Stirring beneath stretching ceiling tiles, I listen because I am willing, Whining through ear holes Like exhalation, smoke travels thoughts linger fogging. I used to tell her I would be unbreakable when I got older. And I’ll never again comprehend what the hell that […]