Melissa

“sometimes life isn’t worth the pain. i’m going for a swim. goodbye, my love.”
― Jake Vander Ark, Lighthouse Nights

“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.”
― Jake Vander Ark, The Accidental Siren

“Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.”
― Jake Vander Ark, The Accidental Siren