"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good...
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” - Neil Gaiman
View ArticleSylvia Plath: Dead and Alive
“All artists suffer.” My philosophy teacher once told me thiswhile lecturing our class on moral theory, but what he didn’t realizewas that I have seen all the possible shades of blue that existin this...
View Article"As we made love, our scars met, grazing long enough for mine to say “He...
“As we made love, our scars met, grazing long enough for mine to say“He tries to hide me,” and for yours to reply“I know I embarrass her.”“He never learned how to swim,” whispered my scar.“She got...
View Article"Love stopped existing. The world ended."
“Love stopped existing. The world ended.” - 6-Word Story #21
View Articlethe shortest suicide note in the world
Screw lengthy suicide notes written on parchment paperwith ink quills and impeccable cursive.My father drove me all the way to San Franciscoto read me his while leaning against the guardrailof the...
View ArticleYou have an amazing imagination. I mean like, in regards to the metaphors you...
Thank you so much! Many of the metaphors I use come naturally to me, but there are certain subjects or topics that I’m interested in and want to write about that I have to do a little more research...
View Article"Spring cheated on Summer with Fall."
“Spring cheated on Summer with Fall.” - 6-Word Story #22
View Articlei have so much inside me that i want to express. so much that needs to come...
What you just expressed to me, though your friend typed it up, came out right. I hope you understand that, because it came out perfectly. I can feel all those pent-up words churning inside you like the...
View Articlethis may have been the harshest winter yet (collab)
Once in a snowstorm we built an iglooof our frozen hearts, piece by piece,until the inside was so cold that even the heatof our skin couldn’t warm one another.I tried to cover our tracks in the snow,I...
View Articlefor the next woman who tries to sleep with you
See, I am both the forest and the fire that consumes it,the kind that ravages an entire grove of trees and cannot be controlled.I have chased off every other woman that has triedto sleep with you; I...
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something too large to be called love, but not as big as Russia
One. I got your name tattooed on my arm. And if you leave me, if you leave me, I will go through hell just to get it removed; I will stand there crying with my hands over my eyes, the kind of crying...
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corrodedvessel: Iviva Olenick * **Narrative...
corrodedvessel:Iviva Olenick * **Narrative embroideryBasically, I’m just a catalogue of disastersembroidery on fabric dyed with onion skin
View Article"Disaster married Despair. Their baby: Desolation."
“Disaster married Despair. Their baby: Desolation.” - 6-Word Story #23
View Article"Death read his horoscope every Sunday."
“Death read his horoscope every Sunday.” - 6-Word Story #24
View Articlethe only alternative to open-heart surgery
Wikipedia estimates that over 106 billion total human beingshave ever lived. There are over 7 billion people in the world,right now, in this very second. But I always wonderedif the dead outnumbered...
View ArticleAsperger's
He told me after the first date that he had Asperger’s.He was always dropping plates; he’d spilled wine in my lapso we had to leave the restaurant early.Instead of putting my hands up, a white flag,...
View ArticleI suffer from depression and I have a very large fear of love. I'm afraid...
You’re welcome a thousand times over, a million times over, a billion times over. I wrote that guide to give people who are struggling with depression hope, and I’m so glad it helped you in the way I...
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