• College Poetry,  Poetry

    Waiting

    “Waiting”  11-28-99 Button up the windows, it’s time to go to sleep. While sewing up the shadows for a life without dreams. But wait for a phone call, it’s time to reflect today. While knitting a sweater for a heart cold with hate.

  • College Poetry,  Poetry

    Sadness Lover

    “Sadness Lover” Stanzaic Rhythmic Poetry, 4-25-00 Fight against what makes you happy, Thrive on others’ pain. Pray for what you fear receiving. Don’t forget my name. Keep close the things you long to kill for, You have only you to lose. Love me, leave me, always and never, For only you will I choose. Resort to acting half your age When things you fear approach you. Live on in sadness like in death. You know I’d never hurt you.

  • College Short Stories,  Short Stories

    I Remember Purple Skies

    I Remember Purple Skies-  Fiction Workshop 2002 Mattie pushed her newly-dyed purple hair out of her face. Her green eyes filled with tears. She had fun during earlier road trips with her friends Sunny and Jade, but now that her first semester of college was almost over and her heart was broken, Mattie felt like she couldn’t enjoy anything anymore. “Are you dwelling again, Matilda?” Jade asked, pushing her short black hair behind her ears. “Don’t make me come back there and beat your ass. You know I’ll do it.” “A little,” Mattie said. “It was the song I guess.” “Don’t just sit back there and cry, Mattie,” Jade said.…