The e-mail message was as jarring as the sound of an alarm clock on Saturday morning. Especially since I didn’t know the…
Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from…
Today is our long day. We need to drive nearly 200 miles to cross state lines. Mom and I take shifts, plying…
Quickly and carefully, I crossed the street with my best friend at the time. Her name was Jalia, a tall and skinny…
Virginia Woolf once said: Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and…
Luz had faked a pregnancy in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend Johnny Rivera and kept it going for six…
About time, Rose grumbled under her breath as she snatched up her two half-filled garbage bags from the ground and made her…
I am going to tell you the sad pathetic truth about me. I am a foster child and nobody loves me. I…
“Call the motherfuck….Call the….” I make out muffled screams from outside. Barely there. From the comfort of my bed, I ignore. People…
It’s not right for a daughter to see her father naked. I’m sure my father knows this, and deep down in her…
I. Rose stood in her tiny, cluttered living room, trying to remember why she was there. “Go brush your teeth and find…
My eyes shot open. I must’ve dozed off. My head was pounding. Perhaps it was the bright, fluorescent light in this cold,…
I hope tomorrow will bring a better you, better me I know that we’ll show this world we got more we could…
Many days we passed Miss Daisy’s house and yelled hi. She would usually call us up on her front porch to visit.…
Has it happened to you? Maybe you’re scrolling through Twitter searching… no, damn near begging for a meme of happiness… then BOOM!…