Infectious by Marlee John

It was infectious. Everything about him. Everything. Why did he smile like that? At me. At everything. Nothing was worth smiling about. Not like that. The air was cold around me ─ Like a ton of bricks as it slammed me in the face Each day upon my awake. Sometimes when the coldness came I couldn’t help but […]

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A Work of Art by Ava Caudle

She is a masterpiece, a collage of all things that are the gritty kind of beautiful. She is dirt under freshly polished nails, She is a scar blending in with rose blush. She is a punch, thrown with a single white carnation. a kaleidoscope thrives in a shade only described as green-blue-purple-red, just beneath Her […]

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Ugly by Matthew Newton

What is beauty? Webster’s dictionary defines it as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” Man, that book has it wrong. What does Webster know anyway?  Beauty is what I see in movies and on the cover of […]

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