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She opened her eyes blearily. “Dad?” She looked around. Where was she? Where was her dad? Hadn’t he just been here? She looked around and heard a faint beeping. She barely registered it.

I wish I would have been more selective with what I chose to fight about. I wish you could be more selective with where you choose to put your energies right now. To select something is to show dedication to it. To select it shows it holds a certain importance. I would like to have selected you more. I wish I had the opportunity to do so now. I…[Read more]

The woman’s skin was thin–like translucent vellum. How long ago was it that her veins were barely visible beneath? How long since the muscles in her hand filled out the spaces between her finger bones, flexing unnoticed beneath smoother, tanned, and melanin-rich skin as they crumbled the aged cheese on her plate? When did her cuticles become so…[Read more]

“There’s nothing you can say,” he says, looking at me with aching eyes, and I watch them like television screens. I see thirty-five years of unhappiness. Thirty-five years of mundane afternoons and lonely nights. Of under-achievement, unrequited love, anxiety attacks. The vague possibility of contentment that’s hovered over his head for so long…[Read more]

And here we gather, flowers to the wind, a welcomed recommendation to sing with breezes and dance with stems…

They come towards me, charging.

The horns gleam, and I see the shine of polished bone, in the last seconds of my pain-free life.

The Running Of The Bulls really should have been the last thing on my bucket list- The Kicking of The Bucket.

His fingers tremble slightly as they hover over the keys, and I know it has nothing to do with cold or fear. It’s the anticipation. I know it well. I can see the outline of a thousand minuscule gears whir rapidly inside his skull, and watch as his fingertips tap idly at nothing. Practicing with the air. Warming up. Waiting for that buzz of energy…[Read more]

I’ve been charging my phone for hours but it’s still only at 13%. It says slow charging. Why? Is there something wrong with the wiring in my house? I’ve tried multiple outlets but it still says slow charging 37 hours til full charge! I will never be able to use my phone unplugged again!

Charging your phone is not easy when you have only one charging port and two-person to charge; you and your younger sister. You can never win from your younger sister, as she has an exceptional power to rule and even, parents’ prefer her over you.

Plugging in her phone, she breathed a sigh of relief. Charge started surging into the battery. She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes. Now there was nothing to do but wait. She mentally made a list of the next steps.