Coming Out at Thanksgiving
My hands shake as I sit with my new therapist who questions me about how I am feeling about coming out to my extended family…
Author: Zane Aquaman
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Emotional Support Human
(TW: contains self-harm and references to suicidal thoughts) Olive had always been my favorite human. I knew that the moment I looked into his eyes…
Analysis of Will Wood’s “I/Me/Myself”
Will Wood’s music is known to be the type that serial killers would listen to as they start their descent into madness and violence; however,…
Hot-Headed
There is a reason why I would stay silent, Why I’d be a fly on the wall of social media Why I’d do nothing and…
Why Safety is Terrifying
People believe safety is comfortable, but I believe safety is terrifying. Safety is an idea that society has created to lie to us, to tell…
How Death Changed Me
I remember the first time I saw the movie “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. My parents had made a rule that I couldn’t watch…
I Envy Artists
From a Writer As I stand facing a painting, being given a detailed explanation that I could never have concluded on my own, my eyes…
Protection from the Sun
Oily and slimy; Put on too much and you are coated in ick, Put on too little and your skin will boil. A bottle that…
My Story with the Word “Like” – A Prose Poem
Preposition. 1. Having the same characteristics or qualities as: as in, something like anger came over me the second I heard my best friend, who…
Lying Down with Mother Earth
Have you ever laid upon the ground And found you heard the Earth breathing? Her lungs choke from the smog And suffocate as cars run…