The Absence of past friends, family, and the life I knew before linger, like lost souls not knowing where to go. This room used to be a space of enjoyable time. Now it just reminds me of how fast time...

Tennis In a game of tennis, you get points on your opponent’s failure. So really you are judged on other people, not yourself, it’s all in the adversary’s favor. It relates to us, you win each...

   I slowly sink into my chair on the balcony, in my own home, for the first time in two and a half weeks. I put my feet up on a nearby potted plant that is basking in the sun, trying to regain life...

Do we truly die?   That’s the question everyone’s dying to know the answer to.    Some believe in life after death, while others believe we simply crumple, crumble into dust....

Darkness -- everywhere I looked was emptiness. The only thing I could see was a faded white box in the corner of wherever I was. It was lying sideways like a shelter. I could move if I wasn’t terrified...

Do you get it? I don’t get it. I don’t get it at all. I see other people who get it and wonder how they got it. If they can get it then I can certainly get it. Right? So then how do I not get it? We...

I finished. I’m done, I completed everything. I’m tired, I did it all, it was so hard, and everything aches. My feet, tired from the dancing. My mouth, tired from the smiling. My legs, tired...

     I listen to the sounds of war. The howling of the fearsome soldiers. The burning of young men, screaming for their lives. They did not deserve it. Before the war, we were all innocent. Clueless...

     12:00 am. and the feelings that casted over my body from the accident haunt my spirit, gripping my soul, as if I was the one at death's door. Surely this couldn't be true; I am the survivor....

They say mistakes make you tougher, stronger, more likely to succeed. “You need a growth mindset!” Is what they all say. But it’s truly impossible for me to grow from my mistakes, unless growing...