the year 243,621 octopuses washed up on shore
They found your thirteen-year-old cousin Ryan floating facedownin the bathtub after a cocaine overdose, the bubbles rising like pearlsto the top. The police had to put yellow crime scene tapein the...
View Articlenot so much falling in love as leaping into it
In January my older brother Paul came out without even saying a single word;I found him wrapped around the body of another boy in the kitchenwhen he thought everyone else in the house was asleep,the...
View Articleon being alone but not being lonely
My parents tell me that I spend too much time by myself, upstairs in my room, alone. But what they don’t understand is that being alone is different than being lonely. The distinction between the two...
View Articlehi there, i have a question about vocab, if it's not too much of a problem....
Hello! :)“Ingrained” is an adjective. It means something is securely fixed or established; something is rooted in place and is difficult to remove or change.“Engrained” is a verb, meaning to firmly fix...
View Article"This morning, Ray Bradbury is dead and there is only soy milk at my coffee...
“This morning, Ray Bradbury is dead and there is only soy milk at my coffee shop.I do not know which to be more sad about, that my body and I are suddenly uncomfortable or that a man I have never met,...
View ArticleYour answer to that vocabulary question made me want to tell you this! Girls...
:) That means a lot to me.
View Article"The sun attended the moon’s funeral."
“The sun attended the moon’s funeral.” - 6-Word Story #54
View Articlewhat's the use of "rotten nectarines" mean to you in your poems? sorry if...
To me, it just symbolizes something that was once sweet and is now ruined and broken. Oftentimes I’ve used it in my pieces about domestic abuse/dating violence.You think of fruit as sweet and fleshy...
View ArticleJetlagged
Last year our family got stuck in the airport for two weeks straight,like in the movie The Terminal with Tom Hanks. In the beginningwe moved around in a haze, tired and jetlagged and wishing...
View ArticleYour poem "Jetlagged" brought tears to my eyes (and even caused them to race...
I loved your description of the tears. :)I’m incredibly glad that you got some measure of catharsis out of ”Jetlagged.” Thank you, so much, for reading my work. <3(If anyone else wants to read the...
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debilitating: http://cargocollective.com/lindsaybottos/i-don-t-r...
debilitating:http://cargocollective.com/lindsaybottos/i-don-t-really-miss-you
View ArticleSorry I might be getting you confused with someone else but are you the...
No, I’m sorry, I don’t think I am.Do you have any more information on the poem; maybe I’ve read it before and could help you find out who it’s by? :)
View Articlei read one of your poems a while ago, and i only remember it had to do...
:) I can’t quite recall the poem you’re talking about. Would it happen to be either of these two, by any...
View Articleunfortunately i can't remember anything else of it. well, maybe i just...
I hope you find it, too!You’re welcome. :)
View ArticleWriting Playlist 5
I’m still going through all your guys’ music suggestions from a few days ago, but these are some of the ones I’ve enjoyed the most:1. I’m Your Late Night Evening Prostitute by Tom Waits2. Music for...
View ArticleHow do you suggest getting over rejections from writing programs, contests,...
You realize that rejection is just part of the process, and you know what? It just makes you stronger. For example, last year I didn’t do as well as I wanted to in the Scholastic Art and Writing...
View ArticleTo Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond
I know that so often in cases like this, the poem would be writtendirectly to the victim, a eulogy, you could say. Because yes, contraryto your popular beliefs, sometimes being raped is worse than...
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I think before you started you '6-word stories' you wrote a poem which had...
Hello! Is it this one, perhaps? :)http://writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/post/38119225014/reasons-why-i-am-sadIt does have Hemingway’s 6-word story in it, towards the end.
View Article"I exist in two places, here and where you are"
“I exist in two places, here and where you are” - Margaret Atwood (via coffeeurlgirl)
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