Author: Shams Seraj
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Letters 101
Image Credit: Unsplash- Jan Dreams can sometimes take you back in time. Memories make you live through the past; they’re really a time machine. I sometimes wonder if I could ever go back in time, where would I really go? 8th grade? Or maybe Kindergarten? Perhaps before school was even a thing. Maybe I’d go…
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Hang
Image Source: Pexels- Samrat Sammy You were behind the wheel, I rode shotgun. “Is it difficult?” I had asked. “I’m getting the hang of it, easy task.” You had said it with a smile, the moon cut in half. We were only eighteen, in driving class. Your life had been a difficult one. Absent father,…
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Celestial Contemplations
Her hair flies in the breeze. Shades of golden and hints of red, the light dances. She looks up at me and smiles. Her smile, like the Moon, cut in half. I stand, I stare I contemplate. What’s prettier? The Sun? The Moon? Or, You? This was written by our contributing writer, Shams Seraj.
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Weapon
Feelings are a weapon. Good news is, they don’t cut. Bad news is that they’re blunt. Your words don’t make me bleed. They pierce my skin and crush my bones. Resentment, anger, hatred. These are the things my mind wants me to feel. But this thing in my chest won’t allow me to. You take…