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Kelsey
Kelsey had a problem, and that problem had a name. She’d written it down slowly and stared at it. Even on paper, his name had looked like trouble, starting with the letter D.
They had met during her sophomore year of high school in the wake of a year-gone-wrong. Failed final exams, a sister that did more harm than good, a dead dog, parents that ( Read more... ) -
The Mirror's Razor Edge
It started as a fire so bright in my heart I thought it would burn me up from the inside out. Our connection was immediate and breathtaking. Everyone could see it. There were times when we seemed to almost be the same person, our thoughts and desires and beliefs perfectly interlocking like a cord of zipper. Loving you was easy, then. Then. But ( Read more... ) -
Love is a Blindfold
Love is a blindfold willingly tied over our eyes:
Allowing red flags and flaws to pass by unnoticed.
Whether we don it ourselves or it is placed there for us,
Either way, our senses are clouded.
Promises unkept. Lies spat like truth. Boundaries Crossed.
I’m sorry.
It won’t happen again.
I love you.
… A blindfold.
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Autumn Whispers
“Do you believe in ghosts?” he asked her. He made it sound like a statement, not a question. She stayed quiet, hoping he’d continue on his own, and after a few moments, he asked once again, “do you believe in ghosts?” Kasey could only stare at him in confusion. They hadn’t known each other long, but she never in her wildest dreams would have ( Read more... ) -
Constellations
As a boy his eyes were round and the clearest blue, like a sky with no clouds. He had hope running through his veins. I remember how he used to bound across the schoolyard like an overexcited puppy, chasing after fireflies in the warm summer air. In those days, his hair would constantly have to be pushed from his eyes as the strands ( Read more... ) -
Fear
If I were to ask, could you describe to me your deepest fear?
Would it be the fear of drowning? It’s the feeling of fighting and thrashing, giving it all that you have, only for it to be futile. Eventually you have no choice but to stop struggling. You’re too tired. You can’t move. Ever so slowly, you watch as the surface grows ( Read more... ) -
Break my Heart Again
“I just feel like something is missing in our relationship, and I think that this is the way to fix it.”
Your reasoning doesn’t make any sense at all, but I find myself nodding in reply, my lips parted limply but not a single sound escaping. Sitting beside you on this bed built for two, a bed which we worked endless hours to be able to afford, my ( Read more... ) -
Love: The First
First Corinthians 4-8: love is patient, love is kind,
And so on and so forth it goes.
Yet love is not an emotion that can so simplistically labeled be.
For love is everchanging, ebbing and flowing with each beat of one’s heart.
It grows as we grow, it falters as we falter, it thrives as we thrive.
As life is inconsistent, so too is love.
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Burned by Love's Sunrise
As human beings, we will never be able to fully appreciate the sun’s beauty without bringing pain to ourselves. To look is to burn out one’s retinas and never again see the light of day… but what if that moment, that brief moment of serenity, is worth it? Fear is the driving force of humanity: it holds us back yet forces us forward, and it can be ( Read more... )