freckles.
When I was a little girl I had a freckle on my stomach. Some doctor would most likely classify it as a mole, but that word sounds so ugly. MOLE. It sounds like something that shouldn’t be there....
View Articlethere is always spring.
Dorothy The wind has been blowing like Omaha’s wind lately and the stereo plays Cursive. The songs become better and more refined each time I hear them. I dream of horrible winters and tornados while...
View ArticleWall Colors.
They say to paint your room with bright colors. Colors that will excite you, motivate you, make you happy every time you wake up. Yellow is one of those colors, they say. Well, I’ll never have yellow...
View Articlememories & ghosts
And so I asked her, “How do I move on from memories that I can barely remember, but those that continue to haunt me each day?” Her answer was quaint, motherly even, but fighting fear with fear isn’t...
View ArticleRight off Walker
It was another beautiful night in the back room: too hot to wear jeans, too cold to see out the front window. Everything always moves together on nights like this. Nothing seems impossible, nothing...
View Articlebright neon.
I’ve spent days upon days upon weeks upon years pondering: How do I manage to on even when life seems pointless? And although I don’t have a step-by-step list of things you must do and say, the fact...
View Articlethe ones we are thankful for.
Graci! When I initially read what we had to write about this week I thought, “Oh great: a stereotypical Thanksgiving post where we all drone on and on about the cliché things we are thankful for.” But...
View Articlekeep the dream alive
Hey Monster, We are thousands of miles apart and I usually wake up to texts of you venting about the girls you’re now living with. I wish I could whisk you away to the Russian countryside where we...
View Articleif this is love…
I started a project about love over three years ago. It all started because I was alone, angry, but most of all, I was confused. I thought love was supposed to be this wonderful thing, yet instead I...
View ArticleSo this is the new year…
Whenever the clock strikes midnight and drunken voices start to sing Auld Lang Syne, I think of that Death Cab song and how even though we are given the chance to start over, I don’t feel any...
View ArticleDecibels
As someone who has all of her five senses, I often take them for granted. I’ve tried to purchase more flowers and place them around my apartment, stopping every once in a while to literally smell the...
View ArticleThe literary process of falling in love.
In the movie 500 Days of Summer, Tom, the protagonist, is crushed by the girl of his dreams. In an attempt to help, his best friend suggests he should write a book because “Henry Miller said the best...
View ArticleMake Kindness Happen
The world is a cruel and terrible place, but there is kindness; there has to be. Do we see kindness based on our own outlook on life or is it much more random than that? We’re all familiar with the...
View ArticleTime To Write, Time To Right
Every few months I have a crisis. Whether it’s an existential one or a melodramatic one, it happens nonetheless. Most people might seek professional help or prescribed medication, but talking to...
View Articleergo
I don’t know where to start with what I haven’t already finished. 7 inches shakes bids debts rhythms chapters letters The fan is always blowing. My fear is always showing. I want to share another...
View ArticleIn The Back
The distant roller coasters of Knott’s look like giant glow sticks bent and shaped into half circles and I get the sneaking suspicion that everything will be all right. -Stacey Renberg
View ArticleSomething To Think About
hello chateau can’t you see that we’re singing? goodbye versailles don’t you think its time that we got to bringing our hopes back up from the grave? -Stacey Renberg
View ArticleTornado Season
The sun will be setting in a few hours, but it’s still high enough to feel guilty about being in pajamas. We watch movies about being and spirituality. My chest burns yet I keep on feeding my habit....
View ArticlePack It Up
I truly think that there’s some validity to what Buk said about the morning. Maybe its an opinion that had been constructed over years and years of waking up to the light and immediately needing to...
View ArticleDonkeys
No down comforters on my bed. Sleep is hard enough when you don’t have feathers and bills and memories poking you in the early morning hours. Just take a few pills, let the feeling take you over and...
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