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I’ve tucked away, so no one can ever see The little glimpse of hope that I used to say was me. So far away with every lock and chain, And...

Just like the ocean so dark and so blue, Waves of sadness at depths that no one ever knew. Floating around just trying to find out, Where...

I held my hand up to Fatman who stood on McGraw next to the Alryashi Store. Fatman’s real name was Benjamin Carter. Though, no one dared...

Collette had been through a bad breakup. Not only did she find Nicola, her no-longer-girlfriend in bed with some guy who looked like...

In case you haven’t already met her, Collette possesses some neat-freak tendencies. She doesn’t have OCD or anything clinical, but she...

I wake at one a.m. like a fishbone in a throat. Dim night light. Ticking of a watch. And the moon like a straw bell tolling silently. A...

I never lived in a house with carpets until I started renting my first flat, the one above the chippie. It felt like an okay compromise,...

“This dance has no name. It is a hungry dance.” - Wallace Stevens, “Dance of the Macabre Mice” Prologue Am I alive? Rogers wondered as...

I’m on a self born mission, Like a bat out of hell, In an apathetic mental condition, Riding a midnight carousel. I don’t know exactly...

Tears are rolling down my face, I simply don’t know what to do, My mind grasps not time nor space, Since I have no choice but to live...

I don't want to die, I want to go home to Heaven, that is, to see my Maker, if there is one but I don't want to go if I have to die to...

I don't want to die--ever, I mean--I might live to be 100 but I still don't want to croak, living's all that I've known, life at least...

I now understand why people say that your first love is unforgettable. I also understand why people say your first love is the most...

PART I - Nothingness There is an essential something to trivial nothingness. The very fact that we feel nothingness is a paradox, isn’t...