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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How Boys Write About Lust
You look like a mirage in this little wrinkle of time, I swing for the fences and misstep all my lines, I’m no poet, I just spit the truth that I feel,
By Ameliaabout a year ago in Poets
How Girls Write About Lust. Top Story - October 2024.
I had this image of homesteaded baking and limes, Plucked from a tree, squeezed into pies, Now your tongue coats the air, coats everything that I do,
By Ameliaabout a year ago in Poets
Chessboard. Top Story - April 2024.
Hello there. Are you afraid? You really shouldn’t be. I’m not going to hurt you. It’s too late for that anyway. Come sit. You must be tired. Your feet are calloused. Your eyes are sun-blind. Your throat is still hoarse, unless I miss my guess. I don’t know why you all scream. There’s really no point.
By Amelia2 years ago in Fiction
Gum. Top Story - March 2024.
It was half-past two. Rainy. The policeman came to the door of a house that looked like it should have died years ago. Tin roof, weeds dried and dead under his feet. The windows were painted black and bottles were broken and cigarettes had been stamped out on a porch that growled when he put his weight on it.
By Amelia2 years ago in Fiction
Hell is a frozen forest
He hated the cold. It cut into his throat and eyes, gashed his lips and cheeks and hands with invisible cuts that grew hotter the longer he froze. The snow crackled threateningly underfoot as though he might sink down into it at any moment. His tennis shoes dipped in and out of the white stuff, bright red, every flash of their reappearance making him feel as though his feet were bleeding.
By Amelia2 years ago in Fiction
The Disconnect
A note on the concept of bees and butterflies: I’ve got questions, things to say, By brooks and strings and farmhouse lights, we keep natural life at bay.
By Amelia2 years ago in Poets
school. Top Story - December 2023.
Mom, come pick me up from school. It’s raining and I want a cup of tea. And I’ve got things to say to you, I hope you'll listen, there's so much to talk about,
By Amelia2 years ago in Poets
The Narcissist. Top Story - October 2023.
I think I am a narcissist, I have all I'd wish to know, I have love, and I have joy, And still the wanting grows. ... Praise dangles sweet from fingertips,
By Amelia2 years ago in Poets
Farm Life
Dear sir; you with the tentacles and wandering eyes, Standing there in my field with the smoldering lights, I’m watching from my porch and smoking a pipe,
By Amelia2 years ago in Poets
breakdown
the air is not cold, not sharp, i wish it was. wish it was cold enough for me to open my mouth and guzzle the chill down my throat, gasping at the shock, feeling the air slapped against my face,
By Amelia2 years ago in Poets
the priest: explanation and analysis
I just finished a story called 'the priest'. It's probably the most personal piece of fiction I've ever written. Regardless of who reads it, I wanted to explain the story a little bit and how it relates to me. I've never done this-- never analyzed a piece of my own fiction, and it feels silly, but it also feels kind of important? Like talking about myself might deepen any readers' understanding of it. Like writing this will get some things off my chest.
By Amelia2 years ago in Confessions
the priest. Top Story - September 2023.
Stained glass draws patterns onto the floor that dapples the wood and directs the eye to where the pews sit battered, old and scratched, cushions faded by decades of kneeling. Book pages are yellowed and most of them stick together. The age of the church hangs in the air, in the particles of dust, in the sunlight that tentatively makes its way through the large windows.
By Amelia2 years ago in Fiction

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How Boys Write About Lust

How Girls Write About Lust. Top Story - October 2024.

Chessboard. Top Story - April 2024.

Gum. Top Story - March 2024.

Hell is a frozen forest

The Disconnect

school. Top Story - December 2023.

The Narcissist. Top Story - October 2023.

Farm Life

breakdown

the priest: explanation and analysis

the priest. Top Story - September 2023.

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