I have tasted bitter tears lingering on your lips, saccharine sunbursts, and sensual midsummer songs. The cruel, hazardous winds of the blue tides of December chills the still air–a crisp, icy taste, stagnant and stale each time I swallow. As I kiss you adieu, I hope you know it's forever. This false admiration for you has [...]
Category: Short Story/Prose
Musings from a Skeptic
I wonder where passion originates from and why it seems to have slipped from my grasp. In the blissfully naive days of my recent, sophomoric, misdirected youth, passion was endearingly too common, clogging my mind with images of crafted lust. I blame the media profusely; the movies that script a love that conquerors death, TV [...]
Love at First Sight
I wanted to run into his arms with a reckless, unrelenting passion: As our eyes met, it was instant–gratifying and intense–that it was destiny for our eyes to meet, a welcome shock- As the stars collide, I become lost in the cosmic dizziness of ripened wonder.I could not remember, but his face was a dream, [...]
Modern Fairy Tale PT 1
I wrote this in the summer! I hope you enjoy! I am still working on part 2, it should be finished shortly. ---- Oh, how the times have changed as I revisit my childhood memories,the Woodlands echoes with thrilling bird songs and tinkling, childish laughter seem more vivid as time passes on. The trees remind [...]
Lovely Caroline
She heard the legends of great love, the hushed rumors, eyes bright with mischief as they tamper with the unknown. As a girl, jealousy grew within Lovely Caroline, the concept of love, utterly foreign and exotic to her tepid waters until it overtook her. Curious, she studied discreetly, studious with an ardent passion. Immature, wide eyes [...]
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 