The light burst to life and started to swing back and forth. Ruth gently released the string and the bulb slowly swayed back into place....

As Noah wandered down the beige halls that contained him for four years, everything around him seemed to reek of an odd, intangible...

My life is a monologue of inside out lies. Truths I give life because if I don't they burn inside. I tell them to myself before others...

I don't want to taste the lies on your lips. You pull me close with arms so cold tracing my outline; fingers digging into hips. My body's...

Silence is fear of anger and retribution. A closed mouth and still tongue are armor against backlash revenge. Motionless limbs are not...

We talk and babble and chatter but no one seems to listen. Freedom of speech falls flat if no one can hear a word. Voices raised higher...

“Oh God, I’m so sorry!” The man sprang to his feet, nearly knocking me over. I pulled a rag from my apron and frantically tried to mop up...

We are walking together side by side. to take back everything We have been denied. every step We take We are changing the world. you...

Sometimes freedom feels like giving up. As if there is another way, but the fight is so exhausting that you cannot see a brighter day....

Early morning sun breaks through the glass – rays of light filling the room that was dark for hours. Awake so long that night leaves and...

Based on the sculpture by Adolph Alexander Weinman A fragment of the cosmos, her pedestal above the world. Cast in bronze she draws down...

You’ve always been there, right at the center of me. Always a bit too pudgy, round, wide, jiggly, FAT. There are reminders of you every...

To the girls who plan conversations days, weeks, months, years in advance. Conversations that need to happen, want to happen, may never...

When someone you love makes you laugh in a way only they know how to. Yellow Singing and dancing in the kitchen. Making dinner in your...

My heart is beating in my throat like sour bile forcing its way out. I listen. Sounds like dry winds hissing through hollow tunnels....