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  • Saving Grace

    Chapter 1- Some things never change… I stood in front of my closet, picking my way through a selection that had barely changed since ninth grade, trying to find something ...

    40 min read
  • Angel burned by Bibles

    This is too long to put in the description line, but I loved a girl in high school, named Angel. To any body who didn't know her, she was just ...

    3 min read
  • Saving Grace - Chapter Two All Downhill From Here

    Chapter 2- All downhill from here I waited for as long as possible to get dinner that night. When the apartment was all but dead quiet, I cracked open my ...

    14 min read
  • NR 23

    I know that I seem incredibly weak in this piece, there are a lot of things going badly in my life, and I am the type of person who needs ...

    5 min read


I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X