What Pain Does (pt. 2)
(continued from part I) Pain will make you grow up very fast But not give you the chance to grow very tall at all. Pain will linger on your breath And follow…
Breeze
23 stories written on Ficly, 2011–2013, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
What Pain Does (pt. 1)
Pain changes you. Pain screws with you. Pain makes you different. Pain fucks you up. And I’m not talking about some sappy emotional pain. None of that. I’m no…
Fawn
It’s like someone picked me up Spun me around and uncovered my innocent eyes I’m dizzy I’m still recovering I’m still recouping I’m a newborn fawn, blinking in…
Happy Place
The raindrops chase each other down the windows and thunder rumbles in the belly of the clouds, just outside these thin walls. My head gingerly rests on his…
Drawing
a line a curve a dash of color red here, blue there stubby little hands broken, dirty fingernails make futile attempts to peel off the paper of a diminishing…
Insignificance
My name isn’t important It isn’t going in your books It isn’t going in your scriptures My face won’t be remembered It won’t be in the papers It won’t be in the…
Routine
Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep It never changes It…
Morning Jog
I don’t know if I’ve ever had a “runner’s high.” Apparently, running is supposed to make your brain produce endorphins and you turn into a euphoric ball of…
Inspiration
Babe I know it’s 3 am but won’t you join me on my escapades I’m running low on inspiration nowadays All I see is the black, dark black of the pavement You’re…
Letter to a human
Dear human, You’re getting it so wrong. You’re *supposed* to feel pain. It’s how you know that you’re alive. Without it, you wouldn’t appreciate the good…
Happy New Year
“What time is it?” “11:57.” “Wow, already?” “Yeah. You know what band’s up right now?” “No idea. But they really could have got someone better.” “I don’t know…
It's nothing.
“What’s wrong, babe?” he asked. For once, he didn’t try to make a joke out of it. He didn’t try to play around. He just sounded concerned, worried. “It’s…
Tapping
There’s a brief tapping on my window. I don’t worry- it’s not loud enough to wake anyone, and soon he’ll give up and return to wherever it is he goes at night…
the mind of a teenager
good morning! good to be alive weather’s nice for once i look good today this is nice, im on time for once its gonna be a good day ugh. my hair looks bad im…
Beautiful
It’s been three days Three days since I’ve even touched food I could go longer if I tried Not like anyone will notice I could dissolve into the air nobody…
Silence
I can’t remember the last time I was this awake the last time my eyes were so open there’s still your shadow it has to be here somewhere it has to dust on the…
game over
three’s a crowd four’s a square ignorance is bliss it’s not really there so this isn’t happening hiding behind your poker face too cutoff to cry uncle need to…
Urbanized
It looks eerily luminous in City. If I didn’t know any better, I would think it was cheery, up there in the scrapers. “I don’t know how they breathe without…
Just Once
She stood before a faded oak door and unlocked it with shaky hands. Jacob greeted her with a caress and pulled her inside. They were alone together in a…
Wannabe
I had to do it. I’d been trying to be one of the populars ever since fifth grade. I begged my mom to put me in cheerleading and ballet and tennis and…