"How do you love without crushin’ somebody’s bones?"

The Scapegoat

"While on the Brooklyn-bound Q train, you have the realization that you, as you are right now, can do whatever you want with your body. With your life. With your hair, even--"

hair-story: a breakdown on breakdowns

"hell hath no fury like the teenage girl who was never really a teenage girl."

the furies (or: for the teenage girl i left behind, but stayed right next to me)

"And anyone who has told me that violence never solved anything, needs to say it to my fifteen-year-old-self’s face first."

(The Dream Where) I Break His Teeth and He Pays For My Medical Bill

"deep breaths taken in twofold, I am learning what it is like again to trust."

my friends and i are ghosts, but we're ghosts together

"Mary and her Monster, her doctor and her demons, and the family that trails along with them – I know them better than I know myself. And perhaps I will catch up someday."

Interview with the Monster Within

“Remind me again why you’re writing a burn piece about yourself.”

A Guide to Living and Dying on the Digital Frontier

"I’ve soliloquized like I knew where the end already was, and that there was nothing left for me but to keep walking until I finally found the edge of the Earth."

Phoebe Bridgers and I Look For Where the Earth Ends

"In the house on Glenheather, in that back-corner room, it is one of the last true pieces of me I have left."

The Binder

"Time to cast someone new  - maybe one, maybe two -
Who is unattainable to me somehow.
Maybe we’re just too different, or maybe we’re secretly too alike.
Maybe the problem lies within seeing a someone as a resolution."

For Your Consideration: A Maladaptive Romance

“She” should be light.
It sounds light after all, the ring of my mother’s laughter
Offbeat grandfather chimes in the foyer
A tender whisper between lovers’ lips--
“She.”

The Unholy Feminine

"I tasted summer on her lips. Cotton candy, chapstick, cherry Coke with rum. 

Her hands met the shorelines of my hips and I was done for. I would let Juliet crash into me any day, any night, whenever she liked."

Wish Upon a Satellite

"Shame was a language I’d learned well. Espoused from my devout lips, it was the only way to heaven I knew. But these were people I knew. That I loved and trusted, and this would never ever make any of them a bad person."

red white & pink all over

James, stumbling home intoxicated from a party, quickly finds a mess that sister Hazel has been trying her best to cope with. It's revealed that the Madigan family has had some entanglings in old mobster issues, and the threat is arriving quickly.

E.M. Lark

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