My Privilege

I have never in my life been as ashamed of who I am right now. Ashamed of the privilege I was born with. I live in castles and extravagant gardens, compared to some of my classmates, who live in terrible conditions compared to me. I see the blue of my veins through the white of […]

The Struggle of Freedom

A caged bird leaps its way to freedom  and success  By following the educational path  So they say  But what if the caged bird doesn’t  want to do life that way?  A caged bird must go to college  they say, to get a degree, to be free. But what if the caged bird doesn’t  want […]

A Single Second

Elias takes a deep breath, unsure for the millionth time if this is the right choice. Even as everything that could possibly go wrong rushes through his mind, he calms himself. There isn’t any use in worrying now; it would be too late to do anything if it was. Slowly, his heart rate calms, and […]

Kings of Summer

(JUNE) “Kings of Summer! Kings of Summer!” We chant and sing, running rampant along the sandy streets, biking up, down, and around our kingdom, preaching of this holy holiday. A time when the air flip flops from the soft song of spring, to a more balmy breath, and everything is different. We transition out of […]

The Magnifying Glass

“Don’t look through the lens. There’s no reason now to see, when you’re a little older” Mother whispers to me. But skies were full of color? Wonder met my eyes. I couldn’t see a problem  if they were magnified.  I wished to touch the handle  and bring it to my face.  Look through the illusion […]

Irony

The Glibman Building takes a long time to burn, but it looks very pretty as it does. Robert quit his job this morning, and now he stands in the street, watching the sparks swallow the ninth floor windows and thinks of the sunlight hitting the red and yellow stained glass in the windows of the […]

La Reine Phantom

She thought her boss had made a deal with someone about her. All she could say was, “That sounded like a very -um lovely man.” “Yeah I know right”. He said this in a voice that made it where anyone could tell he was sarcastic, he continued to speak, ‘Oh, and um thanks for all […]

Three Things

You are twelve years old and walking down the hallway to your bedroom, when an old photograph on the wall catches your eye. You’ve been walking past the photograph for your whole life and have never stopped to take a closer look. But today is different; it’s his birthday. Your feet halt on the scratchy […]

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Rows and flows of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons every whereLooked at clouds that way But now they only block the sunThey rain and snow on everyoneSo many things I would have doneBut clouds got in my way I’ve looked at clouds from both sides nowFrom up and down and […]