Content Warning: This piece discusses assault and physical violence. If this is a topic you are uncomfortable with, please avoid reading. She had this intense presence about her. Like one day, she might just pin you against a wall, knife to your throat, just to hear you beg her for mercy. Elaine had always had […]
Tiff + Earl: As we hit week four of classes, I find myself debating whether to go all-out and wear cute outfits to my 8:30 or to show up in the pj’s that I wore to bed the night before. What’s the “dress code” for an 8:30 at PC? I think I’m running out of […]
Twigs crack beneath my feet as I shuffle down the slope. The afternoon sunlight makes the leaves glisten above my head. Songbirds chirp and squirrels chitter. The scent of crisp, fresh air fills my nostrils as a cool, spring breeze descends across the woods. Up ahead, old Bowman babbles and burbles. It’s been years since […]
The peaceful night of Sept. 13 seemed to many like any other evening in Friartown. However, a visitor lurking in the shadows of campus brought excitement to all. A stray cat wandered around campus, reportedly following people back to their dorms and repeatedly meowing outside the entrances to be let in. News rapidly spread about […]
trauma walks vein lines, blood clots like streetlights, she lost her hair, many fathers, many words devour her, she became a comet of backroads, a dull cobbler with less to say than a politician’s pocket, she changed her name and money noticed, like a blue ocean, her eyes grew tar from oil under her roof […]
“Day eight hundred and forty-six…We’re still floating down into the dark, our food and water rations are running low. I, as the leader of the base, will have to come up with a plan soon. I don’t want to alarm anybody as the job of the group’s well-being falls on the leader’s shoulders, but if […]
For the first year ever, Pippa and Charles were finally allowed to go trick-or-treating by themselves. They had basically shoved their parents out the door on a date night, insisting that ten years old was a perfectly acceptable age to explore their small neighborhood alone. Pippa had decided to go as Anabelle and had made […]
Dudley. Remember the name and don’t forget it. Tonight I will tell you all a tale that occurred almost exactly 40 years ago in my quaint East Coast college campus. I will not be revealing the name of the college in fear that I will be reprimanded for telling my story; for finally revealing the […]
Tonight I agreed to meet a psychic with Maude, my best friend from college. She described it as a secret society for people obsessed with knowing secrets. Five people would be selected at random to go into Mr. Hobart’s Library, where he would tell you anything you wanted to know. The whole thing was a […]