My Stories 50
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switchblade
Sam is nineteen years old, constructed like a switchblade that has only ever been used to scrape away the life that gets stuck underneath city fingernails and has never really shined
Poetry: Life, K, English, Hurt/Comfort, words: 283, favs: 1, 3/27/2011
jellyfish
Our papers circulated like blood, pumping through our fingers, sentences oxygenated into pictures and filtered back into words
Poetry: Life, K, English, Friendship, words: 201, 3/27/2011
1
potable
I was a tourist disguised as a student, my whiteness a lucky charm everyone wanted to rub.
Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 199, 3/27/2011
1
beekeeping
my grandfather is immune to bee poison
Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 500, 2/10/2011
5
concave
poetry is my prayer book, I don't need any other god than your tongue.
Poetry: Love, K, English, Poetry & Romance, words: 280, 8/2/2009
4
the geometry of happiness
we were not initials encased in an uneven heart
Poetry: Love, K, English, Poetry, words: 121, favs: 4, 8/2/2009
4
legend
even lightning has a ribcage
Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 229, 8/2/2009
4
tributaries
I never thought something so filled with rocks could sound so much like the sky
Poetry: Love, K, English, Poetry & Romance, words: 185, favs: 1, 8/2/2009
6
Rainfall Hands
you cannot know what it feels like to have nothing between yourself and beautiful until you've played the piano naked with everything except your fingers. Slam poem
Poetry: Life, K, English, words: 513, favs: 3, 2/6/2009
3
Imani
Deportation is a suitcase made from the wrong colour skin. Slam Poem
Poetry: Family, K+, English, Family & Poetry, words: 655, favs: 1, 1/26/2009
14
today
today I'm the symbol on the bathroom door. [Slam Poem]
Poetry: Politics, T, English, Poetry & Angst, words: 348, favs: 14, follows: 1, 3/27/2007
4
Wishing in Tunnels
I thought I would die before we emerged into the sunlight. "Did you make a wish?" Kat asked, bouncing in her seat. I smiled. "Yeah. It was a really good one." [A story about sisters and AIDS]
Fiction: Young Adult, K+, English, Drama, words: 2k+, favs: 3, 3/13/2007
4
Spinner
Her sentences came from the residue she scraped from the champagne glass sky, turned upside down over our heads. 'I'm a changeling,' she said.
Fiction: Young Adult, T, English, Fantasy & Romance, words: 1k+, 12/7/2006
3
Friction of Resistance
a rainstorm away from a spring. [Abstract poemy proseish thing.]
Fiction: Young Adult, K, English, Poetry, words: 372, favs: 1, 10/23/2006
3
Parallax
Relentless beat of a frantic paradise, as light bends around them.
Fiction: Young Adult, K+, English, Romance, words: 352, favs: 2, 9/30/2006
4
Sky
This is about the first boy to change my life. [names have been changed.]
Fiction: Biography, T, English, words: 1k+, favs: 2, updated: 9/27/2006 published: 8/28/2005
8
Lang division
it wasn't long before my words were too long for me and I tripped over them.
Poetry: General, K, English, words: 284, favs: 2, 9/12/2006