Time To Go
It’s May 2014; my graduation month. Even a year ago I wasn’t sure how I would pull forward in this time and leave the familiar behind, but over the past […]
Solitude
(Photo by Sophia Mullen April 4, 2014) In my early years I had no doubt of my need to be alone. This was unquestionably obvious. I had little interest in […]
A “Good Woman”
“I don’t relate to this stuff at all. Do women actually relate to this? Is this what I’m supposed to be like? I don’t think the writers of this material […]
Wake Me Up: I’m terrible at life
Staring into nothing. A glance at the clock tells me it’s 3:00. I look again and it’s 7:40. I sigh, deep emptiness, blankly taking in the photographs that I set […]
Everything and Nothing: A Short Poem
Everything, and nothing. The oceans deep, A dark blue abyss. Caverns ancient and standing […]
Modesty: A Most Wicked Deception
“Men will undress you in their minds.” she said to me, shaming a teenage girl years older than me who she deemed to be ‘immodest’. “They are like animals. They’re […]
Absent Love
Such power exists in something that is so widely misunderstood. Nothing is as deeply fundamental as love, and in the absence of it nothing can exist. Love has no opposite. […]
Vulnerable Strength
Last time I wrote I held back very little, and the waves of impact were immediate and unmistakable. Although I knew it would affect someone, I don’t think I was […]
Identity
I have been rejected, blamed, humiliated, and hated in so many ways. Although I am in a place now where I don’t take the words and accusations so much to […]
SAD, APPLES, AND UNRULY TONGUES
September has come and so has our descent into cooler weather. I’m resolute in that Summer is by far the best season. Though Autumn might be my second favorite, I’d […]
In the Loft 