Nightshade

VI. old friends break open like ripe fruit pulp and juice between the lips of two boys in the orchard reaching fingertips pulling leaves aside but they finally uproot and ...

V. he is still an irradiated city in his heart his story written in the dust under our feet. an empty city begs to be photographed but he just wants ...

IV. fires howling in the east grow, scream, strip belief from the elders, grown and young viewers of greased clocks ticking time bombs in a forehead's crease. a brief relief ...

the gun unloaded, the past unspun, the stamps quartered and drawn. i walked through customs and had no choice to make. here are my hands and here is my body ...

III. two dying boys escaped their families drove west so they could live unloved two girls in columbus did all the right things tucked their hair behind their ears asked ...

or if we've shot down to earth from a soul collective in a universe adjacent, or a warning that we will fall again and again - and again-- Thanks for ...

II. 10 miles out, the city started again, the road curving through suburban swirls of swimming pools and alternating lily and cream siding. We pushed deeper until night came and ...

( 18+ ) I. When she takes you home and her father stares like you're fresh off the boat, shake his hand like you're stronger than him. He knows you ...

Poems to go here. Negative and positive feedback welcome. Almost everything I write is written while listening to a single song on repeat. I'll put those here for fun. I. ...

I live in the United States and actually had my first full-time job at 13. I'm turning 21 in the fall and in those years I have worked a total ...

Or maybe I want to have an actual discussion, since I've been out of highschool for the better part of a decade. Not to mention that any paper taken from ...

ignorance plz read this article "arranged marriages drive many iraqi girls to suicide." on This article is poorly titled and deals specifically with forced marriages, which is a very different ...

Over the years as technology has improved, we have begun to circumnavigate the idea that the stronger and better adapted of the race will survive. I don't think this is ...

I saw this today and thought it might be interesting to post here. Here are couple quotes from the article: German software firm SAP is recruiting autistic workers. To help ...

I have to agree with Kyllorac that you don't have a whole lot to work with if you aren't willing to have vaguely magical sci-fi tools. There just isn't anything ...