Category: Free Stories and Poems

Absence The day you leave your job, will be the day everyone expresses how much they appreciated you. Two weeks after you break up will be the day your ex realizes how much you mean to them. And the day...

The Curvature of Your Lips You wear that smile like my second skin and those eyes burn through me mesmerizing the movement of my soul. Your twilight-tinctured touch sends chills trailing across my nerve cells. My muddled mind collapses from...

  If I had a nickel for every time I felt brave, well, I’d be broke. But if I had a nickel for every time I trembled to my core and followed my heart anyway, then I’d be rich. For...

Eye Contact I don’t always make eye contact with people. Not because I’m intimidated or lack confidence, but when I peer into their eyes I’m going to see all the scars and open wounds they try to hide. I’ll see...

Conditional Love I guess my unconditional love for you had one condition after all, but it was simply that you didn’t destroy me for loving you. I guess now we’ll both know what it feels like to be hollow. For...