Amelia

Joined June 2021

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19-year-old writer who hopes to write stories for a living someday-- failing that, I'd like to become a mermaid.

Instagram: @nighterwriter24

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The Lobster-Chef Interrogation
“Mrs. Peters, can you explain what happened?” “From the beginning, or-” “From the beginning.” “Oh dear, the beginning. Well, I was at the restaurant with all my friends. Christie, and Julie, and Stacey, and Karen, and Rachel, and Rachel’s odd daughter, and Julie’s husband, and Stacey’s cousin-”
By Amelia21 days ago in Humor
I keep falling in love with something very unlovable
Can’t think about the moon as a foreign concept, cause she’s so blessedly close to the sun, Who’s familiar as anger, as the tang of skin and salt on your lips,
By Amelia3 months ago in Poets
Wendigo
Tripping on tree roots, Scarlet stare, voice purring ‘run’ Hot breaths turning cold.
By Amelia3 months ago in Poets
Parapraxis. Honorable Mention in The Second First Time Challenge.
She appeared across July like an occasional hobby, and brought that Bronco with her-- scratched scarlet paint, exhaust pipe coughing black tar. Where she drove it, its wheels left dents in the ground. And every time she walked out his door she left dents in his heart too.
By Amelia6 months ago in Fiction
Virago
Feel suited for feeling unsuitable, Like disliking me is easy to do, I’m convinced: the results indisputable, I tremble in the blank face of you.
By Amelia7 months ago in Poets
Whistle in the Dark. Runner-Up in Pride Under Pressure Challenge. Top Story - June 2025.
Calamity bit and sucked and kissed with tongue, and Gabriel had known, long before he was meant to, what a life baked in the shadows of some woebegone existence looked like. He had been made to feel like he was being hunted when the guns weren't even aimed yet.
By Amelia7 months ago in Pride
where the hell is your sense of self?
your confident and easy mind? you’re so crippled by your carelessness, sat benignly in the bylines. does your effort have to be maximum, ‘most’,
By Amelia8 months ago in Poets
Wildfire. Honorable Mention in Harmonic Verses Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.
I've always liked the story of Moses and the burning bush. If you really think about it, a burning bush symbolizing God is a far more powerful summary of a deity than anything relegated to an image of a mortal, made more understandable by a human face:
By Amelia9 months ago in Beat
galactic state of interpersonal longing
Yeah well It’s all science at the end of the day, innit? Universe expanding Andromeda’s corners kissing ours Tentative touches,
By Amelia11 months ago in Poets
you'll look for me in your wedding photos. Top Story - January 2025.
hey, bro. how you feeling? you called me at three in the morning, you know. to say you’re getting married; um, that’s cool,
By Amelia12 months ago in Poets
oh, so history really is doomed to repeat itself
It is a rotten thing, a fear-based culture, I’ll humble-brag about living through it, though, Through things historians will hate us for,
By Ameliaabout a year ago in Poets
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Zaya was named Zaya because her mother read the name in a baby book and had thought the name's meaning-- which was listed politely below in fine print as an invitation to appreciate how very sophisticated the novel was-- had been ‘gay’ instead of gray. She had needed glasses back then.
By Ameliaabout a year ago in Humans

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The Lobster-Chef Interrogation

I keep falling in love with something very unlovable

Wendigo

Parapraxis. Honorable Mention in The Second First Time Challenge.

Virago

Whistle in the Dark. Runner-Up in Pride Under Pressure Challenge. Top Story - June 2025.

where the hell is your sense of self?

Wildfire. Honorable Mention in Harmonic Verses Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.

galactic state of interpersonal longing

you'll look for me in your wedding photos. Top Story - January 2025.

oh, so history really is doomed to repeat itself

cheerleaders

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