• maria wrote about the word rules 1 year, 7 months ago

    even though she knew it was a lie all along she couldn’t help but cry, just because everyone else knew that sometimes you have to break the rules. but she sank her fingertips into the rules as if they were a crevice on the sheer rock face she’d been climbing since she was born and [...]

  • maria wrote about the word prints 1 year, 7 months ago

    i want to make a big wall of prints above my bed. a wallpaper of 4×6 memories and places i’ll never see again and moments i could never recover. a quadrilateral collage of the past.

  • maria wrote about the word patent 1 year, 7 months ago

    patent leather shoes with sparkly pink socks and new-demin-blue capris with the sequin fringe. “i wouldn’t tell you it looked good if it didn’t, sweetheart.” okay, mom.

  • maria wrote about the word autumn 1 year, 7 months ago

    buttermilk sunlight filtering through crispy, dying trees’ fingers. soft piano chords and gripping mugs of tea with cable-knit-mitten-ed fingers.