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  Character Bleed

  

  By samschooler, Cincinnati, OH

  There is something frighteningly beautiful about hearts. Not the grade-school valentines, no, not the lollipops printed in ghastly white or the pretty round and pink cutouts, but the honest shape of a human heart. The dips and dripping curves and imperfections, gray-red-blue. Gray is best, gray in d...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  elasticity

  

  By samschooler, Cincinnati, OH

  I am curled on my side, sheets pulled to just over my hipbones, concealing the edge of black boxers. I lay silent, awake in a city that never sleeps. It’s not Seattle, or Tokyo, or anywhere important – but it’s home. It’s warm and there is enough life in this place to brush away the creep of...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Gospel

  

  By samschooler, Cincinnati, OH

  Now begins the seventh day of my imprisonment. The darkness here terrifies me. When I breathe it sticks in my throat and burns, kin to the Hellfire that licks the edges of my wings, singes the feathers from blood-red gold to a dirty black. This is punishment. My solitude is both self-imposed...