Content warning: suicide and eating disorders.

‘Wait, why can’t I see my nickname, then?’ I quickly type in. ‘Don’t I have one?’

    I’ve wrongly been added to that group chat. An impostor. A third wheel. Why am I even here? This only makes things worse, it makes me...

    Monday, September thirtieth.  

    Two till five pm. 

    The dissection room smells. But strangely, not as much as I thought it might. The formaldehyde stink is a base-level, bearable, non-offensive sort of stink, where your nose i...

    My mind contains universes, spreading and growing, their edges tickling my brain. Worlds of thoughts, ideas and dreams strain against my temples; they constantly struggle to break open my pate and rise from my head like a Greek goddess. 

    A million vers...

    The monster let out an earth-shattering roar. The crows took flight, circling dizzyingly into the clouds. The wolves flattened their ears, preparing for battle. Anla sighed, clattering up the stairs. 

    “What?” she asked. “What? Stop...

And in her room she built a shrine.

All bone marrow, flesh, and blood.

Dusky pink particles cover the vanity.

Everyday potions applied to shape and change her face:

In the morning to conceal, in the evening to reveal.

Two matches burnt out and laid at the feet of god.

Hot wa...

Content Warning: single use of the word "rape."

Five stages of Blankness. 

“I belong to the Blank generation. I can take it or leave it each time.” 

Belief

the starry-eyed version of denial 

    It started with that reassurance. Of course the mindset was reversed, and the b...

    The weight of my head rests on the softness of my pillow. I can hear each inhale and exhale of my breath. Muscles consistently bring my chest up and down and up and down. Two molecules of oxygen—twenty-one-percent of the air passing down my throat—reach my lungs an...

    It is near impossible to forget the habits and peculiarities of a person whom you have once loved. At times, it might seem like you have forgotten the exact way they walk––with a slight bounce in their step, their arms swinging with the movement. Their distinct and...

     In Florida, there is still a laundromat. The shining wheels of cars whizzing by it mimic the steely spinning of the machines. Next door you can buy custard, and in the back you can hop over the railroad tracks to Sarah’s house....