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  Blow Away Winds

  

  By i_am_so_very_large_and_towering, Mililani, HI

  Grains papering pink Grating blue gashes of my ears Which I cover To no end In germy Band-Aids that Have gripped before Glaring over glass rims, reaching for my wrists and ankles and elbows The way you’d Cling, angrily, when you Saw feet Fumble at the great, gray door of the house ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Little Half-Truths

  

  By i_am_so_very_large_and_towering, Mililani, HI

  Bony stone rises up on either side of the path, looks down its nose at me. I walk to a bench and sit down, feeling raindrops stain my pants, even as I try to wipe them away. I look at her, seeing her so beautiful, perfect, round eyes and sloping shoulders. The marble still shows through her face, th...
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  Tiny Blue Mountains

  

  By i_am_so_very_large_and_towering, Mililani, HI

  The stitches on the blue couch Stretch into tiny mountains that I climb when it's raining Because I Can. I have pennies In a glass jar that clatter On top of each other And freckles on my eyelids that I can't see when I blink And I tell myself to smile when it's sunny And to ...
• Fiction > Romance
  The Price Of Painted Toenails

  

  By i_am_so_very_large_and_towering, Mililani, HI

  The paint on my toenails was chipping today. Pieces of green and orange fluttered to the floor where the wooden boards swallowed them up, remembering my stiff waddle when I first painted them. Remembering my sandals the next day, so that everyone could see how happy I was to have perfect toenails, t...