It was easy to break her marinating heart on a Friday night when she was sat at the candle-lit kitchen table, chain-smoking and listening to Janis Joplin,…… Read more “Blackness”
Month: February 2018
The Storm That is Brewing- Christine Ray
The silent scream I stifle cuts my throat to ribbons makes my eyes my ears bleed raises phantom welts on my skin spelling out dirty unpure damaged…… Read more “The Storm That is Brewing- Christine Ray”
Immortal- Sarah Doughty
“I don’t know how much strength I have left to keep fighting ghosts that never die.” These poisonous thoughts are my curse. My downfall. My demise. They…… Read more “Immortal- Sarah Doughty”
Midnight Series
Le Nandini
Cracking Your Armor
Originally posted on Stephanie Bennett-Henry:
You headstrong princess. You stubborn warrior, hard and fierce. No one told you about the day when it would all come crumbling…
Silence Severed- Christine Ray
I held the silence for so long that it became a thing a monster with dripping fangs and sharpened claws that began to eat my heart shred my…… Read more “Silence Severed- Christine Ray”
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing-Kristiana Reed
It wasn’t until after you’d left me with voices in my head, that I found your sweater; mutton-coloured, merino wool folded neater than I could ever be.…… Read more “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing-Kristiana Reed”
Unseen-Aurora Phoenix
do you not see her? the cowering fawn peering cautious and doe eyed behind flippant bang flips biting back her fears with her insolent lip. she…… Read more “Unseen-Aurora Phoenix”
We Cannot Look Away: Not another 17, not another One
Just another day just another town bullet perforated backpacks spilling loose-leaf lined paper, textbooks onto blood stained sidewalks helicopters hovering to give us the birds eye view…… Read more “We Cannot Look Away: Not another 17, not another One”
Imprint- Rosema C. Gonzales
You carry a bloodline that has survived years of hunger and hate, a mutating gene that has conquered thousands of decaying dates, the sturdy roots of forefathers…… Read more “Imprint- Rosema C. Gonzales”
