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"If you want to be a great journalist, you'll go." Jenna's fingers froze as she press every key on her keyboard at once. She wasn't a great journalist already? She ...

She jumped for her life down the black endless tunnel and let it swallow her for the most of ten minutes. If they were behind her, maybe, just maybe they ...

The loop was wound tightly against her throat as the chanting abolished her hearing. Witch, witch! She gulped and let her legs tremble until almost resulting in a self-inflicted death. ...

Taneantra Letrans is 14-years-old and soon to be Queen of Remany, in any case, her whole life had been planned out since the beginning of time. Well, all of this ...

Yesterday was glorious, The day that I was saved. Locks released to open arms, For before I was enslaved. The lord forgave my every sin, Washed over every wrong, Balanced ...

"So where will you go from here? You say no one will take you in?" Liza hugged her knees close to her chest and emitted a small noise resembling a ...

"Well this is certainly something." Jon said blankly after seeing the small dorm him and Liza would be sharing. It consisted of a small privy with a washtub, a couple ...

“You’re dying.” Liza announced, hoping that it didn’t sound too much like a renunciation and emitting one prudent look toward her High Master. The old woman to the side of ...

Sleek and supple imperfection The desired blotched reflection. Hallucinating tandem thoughts Reverie becomes sick plots Taste turns to a tangent plea Imprudence preening impunity Eloquence a suede acc

Hunger, hunger. The feeling dominated all other senses. It beckoned for attention and wrangled every loophole that could deny its passion. The slits that made as eyes for the large ...

Taneantra’s hand groped the air for a candle on her bedside table and then froze when it slapped cold concrete. Her eyes wandered aimlessly before she began to recall where ...

This is a little different, but it makes sense I swear! ----------------------------------- He's stuck inside his misery. He's washed through pains on windowsills. "I've come to take they hurt away!" ...

I woke up and ran to your room to enter blank desire. My heart renched out to call your name I felt as though on fire. You left me with ...

You won’t make it through, it whispered warningly. Emily awoke with a shutter as her eyes zipped crazily around. She had locked the windows and doors so that it couldn’t ...

No reason to cry. This thing’s no longer a life. That’s ended. No reason to cry. This thing’s no longer a life. That’s ended. Wait until we meet again, and ...

Hello my angel. Thou that shall save me from deluding my seams, Tarnishing the skin that protects my innocence, So fragile and alone, cruelly empty to the touch Sensitive, unearthly, ...

I’m a burden. I was the catalyst that raised the flames. Made your life hell and even wished it upon you. Held teary eyes to your face of emotionless. Wished ...

Poison me with endless promises. Tell me I’m worth nothing. Shun my every hope so you can, Feed my lust with something. Tell me now that who I am Is ...

Portland, Oregon I didn’t know what was going on. I was enjoying the silence of my living room, sipping my morning Bloody-Mary and peaking drowsily at the neighbors through my ...

Chapter 3 Washington County Jail “Hey, hurry up in there.” I called to her again. She wasn’t answering me and I’d begun to think that she snuck out through the ...

This poem was written by Carisha Kelsey but has been deleted for possible publication.

Chapter 4 Portland, Oregon Oh God he’s bleeding. He’s bleeding! My hands shook at my sides and I reached for him several times only to shrink away. What was I ...

Thrown apart. A part of me. Split to pieces, I won't find. Hidden there where I can't seek. Changing there as I unwind. Oh my place. Where I belong. So ...

A rose without peddles. The sun without light. A moonbeam without shadow. A night within a night. ------------------------ my sister wrote this. She's 10 and she's entering a poetry contest ...

A void of falling petals Spiraling down in a symphony Singing songs we cannot hear And crashing. Still in silence. Leaving bare the tearstained fingers Frostbitten in the soothing water ...

Strip me clean, will lyric tools With sheers and cutters, take me off. Cut me short, slice me thin. That lick of need That fuels. Pull me into strands of ...

I'm not so sure where this is going to go. Hopefully I'll like the idea enough to turn it into a novel. Crit away! Hi Vampgrl607![9:05pm] [Eahottie05 has logged in] ...

Rain Dancers in a pool of echoed water waves. Splashing, splashing, ricocheting beats in bubbled caves. Drumming, pulsing, swaying, bursting, lolling all around. Feet are tapping, rythyms lapping, hea

Listening. To the pounding of the music As it takes its final climax, Breathing. In… Erotic, seemingly flamboyant Patterns. Ice skating between my lips And melting in your button-holes. Smoke. ...

My waterfalls, My dripping, lazily In a forest of cumquat trees. Lips moist with anticipation. Waiting for the arrival of your Poetic tongue. Starving for a string of words To ...

I rated this R because, eventually, most likely very soon, this will be R material so it's a warning. ----------------------- The chicken was judging me. It’s beady eyes boring into ...

The chicken was judging me…again. Except now, it smoked and sizzled in a silver platter at the center of our grand table. It should have smelled delicious to me, but ...

The Earth is small, with big mistakes. Filling minds with no breaks. Anxiety takes over, Crushes the mind. Making you feel, Like you're left behind.

I’m…good. Tell me that you love me and I’ll Say I love you too. Tell me that it’s over and The relationship is through. You’re broke and I get the ...

I don't think I can take another lie. I'm filled to the brim and Spilling. Over. Over you and over eyes, and over falls I'm over lies. You've poured me, ...

The drapes were a silk cocoon of sloppy hurriedness to reconnect leg to torso. Spider webs of scarlet formed stained glass squares in the creases of his pale lips. So ...

By my dad: Racism is a difficult topic. You say something wrong And you may get dropped quick. Quick as in fast, falling to the ground, and hitting the pavement ...

Does it hurt, When you’re Bleeding. Time’s always here In the warmth of my arms And you’re sitting there Freezing. Don’t leave me. Just hold on to my Breathing. Now ...

This poem was by Carisha Kelsey but has been deleted for possible publication purposes

I don’t come here from behind mellowed pink serene silk behind cheap shower glass; to try to stare hard at You. nearly invisible now I choose to shut My eyes ...

NOTE: I thought this deserved some explanation. It actually is about an eating disorder. Bulimia, in which I am still harshly recovering from for about a year now. I actually ...

Warning: I am not a singer and decided to sing anyway...I know, it's terrible haha. Basically it's a song i had a dream about last night that I wrote this ...

Warning: I am not a singer and decided to sing anyway...I know, it's terrible haha. Basically it's a song i had a dream about last night that I wrote this ...

Hot around the sitting duck, Itching in the pond. Sipping air through reedy straws, Through too-tall green, within the jaws Each clicking palate, sifting cause, artery, to articular bond. Hot ...