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Sonia didn’t see Fuyuhiko for at least a week, and even when she did see him after that, it was brief glimpses as he stomped by her in the hallway. No matter how often she tried to stop him to talk, he ignored her wordlessly, leaving her standing alone in the empty halls of the … Continue reading Snow Black ch. 6 – A Danganronpa (Sonia x Tanaka) Fic

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Originally published (September 2016) in Geeky Press’s Bad Jobs and Bullshit: It’s Unlikely We’ll Be Missed. I worked at a large chain department store in the southeast. We specialized in everything outdoors, from guns to swim trunks, which catered well to the caveman-like conspiracy theorists and government haters alike. He was an elderly man named … Continue reading “The Racist is Always Right,” a Short Story

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Originally published (February 2, 2014) by scissors & spackle. Falling, lifting, jumping, tumbling, writing, reading words on paper, pages, paper, pages. Pacing words to find words to find words to find fine dining, lining the streets with gold nickels and brass plating. Plating, feigning and raining open worlds, open worlds, curl and unfurl, furling, furling, … Continue reading “Words, Words, Words,” a Poem

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Originally published (November 30, 2016) in Five:2:One Magazine. We like to pretend like we don’t care,

Her house, especially in comparison to the Uzumaki household, was much more heavily decorated. Shelves lined the walls, and on each one were various knick-knacks and potted plants. Leafy, green vines grew wildly along the walls. They reached toward the floor and ceiling with reckless abandon and even grew towards one another, grasping out to … Continue reading Silent Kisses ch. 4 – A Naruto (Sasuke x Hinata) Fic

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Originally published (April 27, 2016) in The Highlander. Clot, clot, clot,The heart,The artery,The left and the right,Stuff the trunks and the arches,Cave in the vena cava,Slip into the segment where the secrets are,Where the paling pulmonary:Beats, beats, beats.Batter the beating heart until it bleeds,Bleeds out the secrets and the tales,Hidden deep, deep down in the … Continue reading “The Telltale Heart,” a Poem

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There it was. My heart thrummed somewhere between my chest and my ears as I stared down at the card Yumeko had played. There, across from the paper I had played, was another rock. Somehow, I had beaten the odds. Fate, destiny, what have you… for whatever reason, chose me, and the only way I … Continue reading The Gamble of Life ch. 5 – A Kakegurui (Ryota x Yumeko) Fic

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Originally published (April 28, 2015) by Marr’s Field Journal. Ocean like an ink well, drop drop drop as the people as the people like pens across a page. Dotting “i”s crossing “t”s, dotting eyes, dotting eyes, dotting eyes as pupils listening to teacher speak. Teacher speak, teacher speak, teacher speaking to empty schools of fish. … Continue reading “America is Failing Our Students,” a Poem

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Originally published (August 29, 2019) by Z Publishing in Alabama’s Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology. I want to write a poem about outer space.A science fiction romance.Two lovers, stars in the Milky Way.Lovers, obsessed with the moon, Saturn,With nebulae and star clustersBecause there’s a spark in – a fascination inThe absence of civilizations – … Continue reading “A Science Fiction Poem about Star-Crossed Lovers,” a Poem

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Originally published digitally (January 15, 2014) and in print (April 1, 2014) by Crack the Spine. MOVIE TICKET Crumpled crumpling craving of life of social interactions. Entertaining interactions for days, upon days, upon days. Days of new, new never needless, new never needless needling its way into an esophagus. Esophagus, ectopic, endometriosis, elephants in the … Continue reading “Daily Life and Other Oddities,” a Poem

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