Converse shoes: I retired my Adidas shoes littered with stitched flowers stitched on the sides due to a worn inside. They were accustomed to my feet and I easily slid them on and off. I exchanged them...
I had Thanksgiving with a witch, a witch named Baba Yaga. She said, don’t fear, the children are here! Baba Yaga dropped them out, of her sack. The kids screamed ATTACK! And hit her shins with their...
Zen is a zawg. A zawg from the cafe in town with the great london fogs. Just what you can ask for from a cafe with zawgs. From the moment you walk in, you can hear the zump zump zump of his buff white...
“No fair, you got more candy than me!”
“Trade you two Kit Kats for a peanut butter cup.”
“No way.”
Shouts and laughter drifted on the night air under a full, bright moon. A Vampire ran...
I don’t want to get into it, but irrelevant conversation can be one of the most friendship-building and love-sustaining experiences. And it starts with nonsense.
Let me take you on a tangent. There’s...
The best week of my life happened just after I learned that the mountain by my house was a volcano.
I woke up every morning, and I was so convinced that any day now, it would reduce everything...
It is 5:15 a.m. I’m lying on the dining room floor of my friend’s house. A heating pad stretches across my stomach as I shiver, grateful I packed it at the last minute. The only times I remember being...
I stand outside in the open as the snow comes roaring down on my face. It’s dark outside and there is a small street light above me. All I see are layers of snow for miles and miles, not a person or...
I knew I was too much in ninth grade.
Mr. Stenz drew clownish, red lines across my essays. I learned bodily cleanliness. The purity of tendus. Over and over and over again. My teachers told me to cut...
“Today of all the days so far is the nicest,” said one of the men.
“How so?” said the other.
“The leaves, it’s perfect today,” said the first man as the wind gave a small draft cooling
their...
That blaring sound again, never really knew how to describe the sound, but everyone knows the sound in their own way. Always needed when we need to wake up for something important, or I guess something...
I promised her I wouldn’t cry on our wedding night, so it was funny when I did. Same went for the night Charlie was born. Then Samantha. Soon I was hopeless—any graduation and every Christmas morning....
