There are some girls who can wear sadness like it’s a gossamer negligee falling over their shoulders; sadness takes to them beautifully, the way morning mists take to a sunrise, and when these girls weep,Continue reading
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This I Believe: Balancing Beauty and Intelligence
I have never been a beautiful girl. I am pretty, perhaps, but nothing more. For a long time, I didn’t notice, because my lack of physical beauty made me no less striking to the peopleContinue reading
Girl of Glass
They say a child can swim in the veins of a blue whale, that the vessels are just big enough for the slender body of a little girl. I would have fit perfectly, thin andContinue reading
Behind My Skin
There is something living inside of me. It blooms out from between my lips like a bouquet of diseased flowers I have kept pressed beneath my tongue for so long that my mouth has memorizedContinue reading
Cocaine Symphonies
There is this music I hear. It sounds exactly the way perfume smells: intoxicatingly sweet but dizzying if you inhale too much at once. It’s the kind of music you play when you’re too sadContinue reading
Fairest of Them All
ROSEMARY: A young girl, daughter to MARIANNE, who initially represents the brightness and innocence of childhood. Yet as she grows older and more beautiful, she becomes the object of her mother’s jealousy. Thus, her relationshipContinue reading