• A Cigarette at Dusk

    In the gloom of dusk, under the light of a single overhead bulb, she sits at the kitchen table with a cigarette balanced between two fingers. The smoke twists and twirls, waltzing away into the long night. A pile of bobby pins and a stray hair elastic teeter at the wood’s edge, half discarded from…


  • Returning Home

      Nos·tal·gia /näˈstaljə,nəˈstaljə/ (noun) noun: nostalgia; plural noun: nostalgias a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. “I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college” Coming back home after living on my own for three years is a bizarre mix of sentimental feelings…


  • Living Among the Nerds

    Now I proudly describe myself as a nerd, and each one of my two roommates also describes themselves as nerds. However, each of us are of a different variety of the nerd genre. I lean more towards books/manga, horror/psychological horror anything, and anime, while Katherine (one of my roommates) is more into science fiction TV…