By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student i’m done helping you and your empty self i’m done trying to find who you are figure it out yourself i’m done trying to find your second half do it yourself solve your own problems i can’t solve them for you i’m done fixing you and your broken self left […]
Lost
By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student i am standing in a field surrounded by wildflowers they are all staring laughing at me me and my overthinking me and my hopefulness that never goes anywhere me and my cold sheets me and how alone i am and i am just searching for somebody anybody who sees how […]
Brave Heart, Maya
By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP Student I click the power button on the side of my phone, feel a moment of relief as I feel the button give way, the sound ring clear, and my phone screen go dark. No longer am I reading a Lord of the Rings fanfiction, not a Hobbit fanfiction, no contemplating […]
The Names That We Give to Terrible Things
By Sol Dente, TIWP Student In the east, the people know them by nameBy the footprints they make in the rain, by the torrentAnd screaming they take and they bring as theyMake a wake in the way of the floodsThese giants that walk with the names ofOur friends, of the people we meet aroundBushes and […]
You & I
By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student When we metyou were everything, everywhere, all at the same timeand I was just a girl. You were mountains built over time that used to be tiny hillsand I was just a girl. You were castles and kingdoms dipped in starlight and skyand I was just a girl. You were […]
Nothing
By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student nothing scares me morethen the fact that youcan make me feeleverythingornothing with a single glance
Light & Dark
By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student He can give you light.He can give you childlike innocence, fairytales, princesses and princes.He can give you mornings, rays of sunlight,white lace.But he would sacrifice you for the world. I could give you night.I could give you starlight,passion,queens and kings.I could give you evenings,dancing in the dark, black satin. And I would burn the world […]
Just a God
By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student Who am I? As every mortal invents hundreds upon thousands of tales about me, I’m left to wonder whether any of them are true. Do they truly know of this person they describe? This God? Or are they all just living in their imaginations, as most humans do. I have […]
The Tales of August
By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student August was born on the 13th of November. He was born just as he died, with glorious color. As his parents lovingly hugged him, he was fragile as a butterfly wing, his giggle made the world more vibrant.As August grew up, his mother taught him how to live. And so […]
I Chose You
By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student Blue smoke drifts through the air, pointing me towards the source of our ruin. Turning the crimson sky into an ocean, and just like the ocean I know that it will kill me. I stand at the end of a bridge, the industrial wreck of an alliance we had been […]
