

Real-life Coping Mechanisms, Let’s Discuss
If you’re tired of being scared about the state of the actual world, perhaps try instead being scared of a haunted murderous lake woman and metaphorical mouse traps. Continue reading Real-life Coping Mechanisms, Let’s Discuss

A Halloween Playlist ~For the Times~
This year, we’re ditching the Monster Mash. Continue reading A Halloween Playlist ~For the Times~

Lovesick, Sick of Love, or Just [mentally] Ill?
I think of my experiences as being packed into a big, clunky suitcase that I haul with me wherever ago. This suitcase is kind of old and might be a little overstuffed, but it is mine to carry. Of course, everyone brings baggage into relationships — I just have a specific kind. Continue reading Lovesick, Sick of Love, or Just [mentally] Ill?

The Unbearable Paradox of Deadlines
I’m blacklisted from at least two library networks. Continue reading The Unbearable Paradox of Deadlines

Not bad! #1
Poems by Brianna Purington and Benjamin Walton Continue reading Not bad! #1

The Burrowers
The burrowing animal in Nadine’s chest began to settle, and she carefully picked the letters out of the box and stacked them on the plywood beside her. Continue reading The Burrowers

Say What?
Nirvana had it wrong. We should not in fact be all apologies. Continue reading Say What?

A Quarantine Playlist for When You’re Not a Teen Anymore
Are we tired of hearing about “unprecedented times”? We should listen to music, instead. Continue reading A Quarantine Playlist for When You’re Not a Teen Anymore

Photoshopping My Ex-boyfriends Out of Photos
It’s like in movies when someone time travels and accidentally makes it so that someone wasn’t born. Except they were born. And they treated you like garbage. Continue reading Photoshopping My Ex-boyfriends Out of Photos

Life is Unfair
My brothers would lay a couple of blankets on the floor and stick the “WWF Intro Songs” CD we owned into the stereo. We’d walk through the hallway to whatever intro song we picked and wrestle. Continue reading Life is Unfair