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• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  The Reunion

  

  By jenzo.duque, Crown Point, IN

  So picture this, right? I'm pedaling. And pedaling. Right up, left down, right up, left down. Going through the motions. Slam the brake—skid, slide, splash. A horn blares, no, cries out, in frustration. “What are you doing, kid,” it shouts. “You want to be killed?” White noise. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Day After

  

  By jenzo.duque, Crown Point, IN

  I shouldn't have met your parents. That's a dialogue that I'll recite to myself until my mind becomes a symphony hall and the echoing words are an orchestra in my soul. But at this instant, I'm resistant to the facts like how my mailbox isn't colorful enough or that I have t...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Stain

  

  By jenzo.duque, Crown Point, IN

  It actually happens. They warn you, everyone and their mother tells you over that batch of oven fresh cookies on the counter cooling—as you all whisper about it too loudly (of course she'll hear your twelve year old attempts at subtlety)—they all say the same thing. “Don't be any...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  I Want An Honest Poem

  

  By jenzo.duque, Crown Point, IN

  I want an honest poem, where “I did it on purpose” and “Yes, it's my fault” are dutifully wed, wrapped in a honeyed-moon and in a few years “It'll never happen again” poem is born. Truthfully, I could use an honest poem so that emotions can gaze upon metaphors with unconditiona...