“I told you, ma, I dont wanna eat. I dont even understand why I need to be here at all. nobody in this family pays any mind to me until I fuck something up, so […]
Aria began walking up the stairs, carrying the pain of the last 48 hours heavily with every step. It felt like every step weighed more than the last as she got closer and closer to the house that no longer felt […]
Over the course of this class, I have found some things easy, and others more difficult. The reason that I took this class to begin with was to expand on my writing and figure out if I could really do something […]
As much as I hated having to take care of all of my siblings and myself and my mom, and the house and everything else that had become my responsibility all of a sudden, I finally realize now that at 26 I […]
Julissa picks up the phone to make a phone call, it rings and then it goes to voicemail after a few rings. Julissa is pacing back and forth speaking heavily with her hands as she leaves this long […]
This was the first draft of “Running Shoes”. I eventually edited this short story with the intentions of laying it as a chapter belonging to a novel that will later be continued.
her words are ice cold and cut deep like rusty daggers
Every…
time
she has a way of triggering things within me that I thought I had left behind
she takes me back to […]