The Bleeding Heart_Look What You Made Me Do_Two Star Tattoo_Frank
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The Bleeding Heart
The Bleeding Heart Those displays of concrete lives, real and fiction, have attracted me towards them since I was a child.As a child, when my mother wanted to take me shopping, I would cry and agree to go when she would let me visit the bookstore nearby.While she would be shopping for laces and utensils, I would drift off to my paradise.The musky smell of paper, shiny rainbow-colored covers pull me inside. I would look at those beautiful rows of glee, heartbreaks, and crimes. The sight gratified my soul in a way that I have known only when I saw my child for the first time after hard labor. I ...
Look What You Made Me Do
The most annoying thing about being a writer is having stories come to my mind at the worst times. Right before falling asleep, while driving, or drying my hair. They never pop up when my hands are conveniently free or I have the time or space to sit and write. They just enter my brain, create a little excitement and chaos, and then disappear into www.onedoor.ccthin air, never to be remembered again.The story of Kate though, is one that never leaves, no matter how much I would like it to, or how much I wish it had never entered my brain. Kate has become a part of me, and I a part of her. And so, we travel t...
Two Star Tattoo
July 29、 It was finally here.I stared in the bedroom mirror. Greek nose, hazel eyes, overall a pretty average appearance. I rolled up the sleeve on my left arm. This was going to be the last day of having what my mother called “untarnished” skin. Today was the day I would finally get a tattoo.For years, I’d admired the women I saw with tattoos. To me, they symbolized badassery at its finest. They held stories rooted in feminism and artistic expression. And they were just so sexy. I couldn’t help but stare anytime I saw someone covered in ink.I was jumping onboard a bit late in my life. I was a...
Frank
During my four years at college, I was in a fraternity. Delta Chi. Best group of goofballs I’ve ever known. We didn’t just party and watch sports. We actually had a somewhat positive impact on the community. There were committees made up of a few guys who oversaw whatever focus that particular committee had. Mine was Philanthropy. When I ran the Philanthropy committee, I got in touch with the community public library, which just happened to be right across the street from our small campus. One afternoon a week, and sometimes on Saturday mornings, some of the guys would volunteer an hour to re...