Announcement

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve been enjoying my blog so far. Starting today (April 1st), I’ll be participating in NaPoWriMo, which is a challenge to write a poem a day for a whole month. I’m not planning to post each poem every day, as I don’t have that sort of work ethic, but I’ll do […]

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And Death

Zinnia Smith lives in a society much like our own, but with one little twist: occasionally, people are marked for murder. To these people, being marked is as normal as a family outing or going to the movies with friends. But one thing has never occurred before: someone under the age of 21 being marked. […]

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friends,

Being marked for murder was as normal of an occurrence as sitting down for a family meal, but one small thing nagged in the back of people’s mind: a child has never been marked before. Wasn’t it that children didn’t know they were making a mistake? Wasn’t it that they were still learning the rights […]

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family,

“She’s been marked for murder,” whispered the old man softly. He set a hand on the man he was addressing and tried not to crumple under his heavy gaze. “Finally,” sighed her father as he sank back into his chair. “I was beginning to think she could amount to nothing.”

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Yellow Lights and Trapezoids

Everything even comes in fours. Four elements, four seasons, four Ninja Turtles, and four suits in a deck of cards. I’ve always loved the way the quadrilateral worked in my house. We were like an isosceles trapezoid with two pairs of congruent bases: my mom and my dad, then my sister and me. That was […]

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Fairy Tales

The ice caps are melting The ozone layer is thinning Humans are finding more and more ways to kill the world And the princess never truly escaped from that tower I never understood why the princess didn’t save herself, why she waited for a prince to bring her happiness on a silver platter Happiness is […]

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