Staring games

You think you can intimidate me but I can see the ugly inside you. You think your crisp shirt and pressed skirt hide the dark stain but it bleeds through your pores. Your lower jaw juts forward ever so slightly daring me to maintain eye contact, challenging me to look Read more

By justk, ago

‘After two year’s of living with her parents’

Some things you just know. Zara’s Advanced Humanities teacher encouraged her to call it intuition. Zara was pretty sure sharing a bloodline with people gave you an intuitive edge about them but that didn’t necessarily constitute an intuitive gift.  Since childhood Zara had a sense that her parents were living with a big secret. Read more

By justk, ago

tiny little secret

Keely isn’t going to tell but she wants everyone to know.  But they must know, they must be able to see it.  Can’t they?  Isn’t there a visible change?  She imagined a new hue to her aura.   Keely didn’t really talk in terms of auras but she remembered seeing that Read more

By justk, ago

Everybody’s got secrets

“Hey.”  I have the coolest big sister out of all my friends.  It’s not just because she has a verse of The Raven tattooed along the inner fingers of her left hand.  She talks to me about everything and tells me I can ask her anything, anything at all.  She Read more

By justk, ago