2May You Burn in a Hell of My Beautiful Blonde Hair When I left that house I thought I had taken everything of mine. Four years of clothes and possessions and furniture shoved into trash bags and wedged into the back of an economy van. Then his house went up in flames. Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I like to imagine the part of me he hated the most had a part in his death.

4Stockholm She would look back and remember this exact moment and wish it had gone a different way. She wished now that she had come up with something witty and haughty to wipe that sadistic grin off his face. The smell of cigarettes and blood permeated this memory like so many others. She replayed this moment over and over in the year to come and she came to realize she never had a chance.

1 Her Crown of Thorns A short psychological memoir of how a girl came to be sitting in the chair across from the head psychologist at a psychiatric hospital. **Warning: Graphic - Involves self-mutilation**

Show Me Red A poem of retribution from a woman scorned.

Love's Free Fall A short metaphorical piece about the act of falling in love.