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Dear Honey- Is it Worth Staying?

An advice column I wrote for english class. Enjoy. Dear Honey, My girlfriend and I have been together for a couple years in college now but she’s traveling abroad for grad school. We are pretty young and she doesn’t believe in long distance, but we thought we’d try it anyway. We are constantly arguing over […]

A Letter to Anyone Who Wishes to Love Me

To any boy or girl who may one day find his or herself wanting a chance to love me, here are some challenges I have found my previous friendships and lovers have failed to surpass: I set my alarm clock at 8:02. Some days I may set it at 7:59 or even 8:06. I get […]

Leave a Message

It’s Monday. 2:21 – Actually… nevermind. 2:36 – Uhh… I’ll call back later. 2:41 pm – I called. You answered with hello. I couldn’t even muster a single word. I called you that day because I needed you and I couldn’t even say a damn word. I felt the innocence of your hello. I felt […]

Seconds

To the second girl who sits in his passenger’s seat, please get him to stop using his phone. Driving on the buttons in the road and near death experiences are so not funny. But when you’re taking late night drives let the lights illuminate and dim as if the days are running past you with […]

The Difference Between You and Him

“He told me he missed me but you came to see me.” He told me one day he would be showcased as champion of the world with his arms wrapped around the prettiest girl in the city. You showed me one day how to be a magician where no one else knows the tricks behind the […]

dessert first

my father always told me never to spoil my appetite for supper. but somehow i always managed to sneak in a cookie or two. for some reason the cookie always tasted way better before dinner rather than after. imagine something catastrophic happening between the main course and dessert. what if a meteor strikes but i […]

and counting

at two weeks i forgot what basic necessities were. sleep became optional and 3 am became my best friend. i told 3 am everything and the stillness heard me at my most vulnerable. i forgot his voice in the span of 4 weeks. i hadn’t heard it speak to me until i listened to his […]

On Sex

*written as a class assignment based off ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran*   Often the most intimate moments are those that hold the least intimate acts Because our flaws are uncensored in the undressing But it is in the dressing of our disguises in silence that our insecurities scream   So copulate with whom you […]

to him

I doubt that he’s reading this but in the chances that he might be. hi. hello. are you doing okay? how’s your mom? your sister? I know you don’t talk to your dad much… I’m sorry for that by the way. I just wanted to say thank you to the first boy who made me […]