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  Comfortable Clutter

  

  By sejalj, San Ramon, CA

  The chipped teacups the bed that’s been slept in the curtain pushed aside to let light make its way, settle in and illuminate the dancing dust. The laundry hamper, half-full the milk in the fridge. The textbooks on the table the speaker and the iPod with their sweet, swe...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unblinking

  

  By sejalj, San Ramon, CA

  I’m trapped behind these tiny irregularly shaped airplane windows. Not even glass, they don’t even shine just dull plastic that zones out the sky. The clouds roll beneath me, tendrils of the beauty I’ve dreamed of. I yearn for an escape, but the air pressure is holding m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Stifling

  

  By sejalj, San Ramon, CA

  There were no duplicate keys needed No ridges enclosed in warm palms. No anticipation, no quiet gasps of awe. Just the cool click of metal upon metal the undone lock yielding silence. The plate is scrubbed, one glass, one fork. There are no heaps of dishes, precarious tow...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Thursday Morning

  

  By sejalj, San Ramon, CA

  I. Angie It's gray as I park behind the Cafe Thames and unlock the back door. I shiver and turn all the lights on, one by one. Sometimes I wish someone out there would get some hope form their sight biting through the darkness. I hang my parka on the coat rack and slip on my black work apro...