Sex in Utopia by Alicen Grey

1. The face of the desk lamp shined fierce light across my fingers as I typed the finishing touches on an assignment. It was a welcome warmth in an otherwise cold college dormitory. At 1AM I was still up, out of focus, trudging from sentence to sentence, more...

Hollow by Danese Grandfield

once upon a time i watched and waited as mother sewed, her nimble fingers stitching the last now one, two, three stitches, and then she draped it, finished, lovingly around my shoulders, kissed me on the cheek, and pulled up the hood. “When you are in the woods,...

Acceptance by Veronica Wanchena

“My grief lies all within; and these external manners of lament are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul.” – William Shakespeare Acceptance November 2006 Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 20 This quote from Shakespeare about...