Jillian Spiridon

Joined February 2021

325 stories

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just another writer with too many cats

twitter: @jillianspiridon

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We Come in All Shades
red—like Eve's apple held out in a fist, the first temptation of a woman to a man, the way you drew pictures for a project,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Vows of White and Gold
the ring should seal it with a promise of things to come but I knew better than to believe in such falsehoods. my parents never wore their rings, not one single day,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Color Me Crazy
the black and white pages invite you to follow inside the lines with your pencil, but some like to cross the boundaries and create their own masterpieces
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Hue of the Day
Red There's a little farmhouse you can see far from this packed dirt road. You're just passing through, a straggler, but you wonder about the family in the wind-battered old place. You can imagine a surly father, an unhappy mother, a little girl in oversized clothes. But then you blink, and the vision's gone—back to the outer reaches of your memory.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Humans
Swirls
The drip of ice cream down my arm, the tastes of chocolate and vanilla, the stickiness of sun meeting skin— I remember these things vividly,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Saturation
Too much, too little, far and few between— never feeling like enough was a patent curse. It came and went like starfire, brushstrokes
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Red to Blue and Back Again
She thought it was just a hint of depression, the way sadness crept upon her like a spider waiting to weave a web to entangle and entrap—
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Under a Lavender Sky
You thought I was so optimistic back then, when my smiles came like I pulled them from a jar, but you were the source of all that glee and wit.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Rainbow of Who You Are
Red is for the way she wishes her lips were painted, the better to kiss away the hurt of a lover's wounds, even though no one ever saw the way her own pain
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Dream the Kaleidoscope
I imagine myself to be like a kaleidoscope, colors morphing into shapes and beings all made through refraction and motion.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Painted Melancholia
there's a cocoon of heartbreak nestled in my chest, each vibrant pang of longing casting shadows against the realm of what I know myself to be.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Stormfront Mindset
Rain pelted the glass in tiny rivulets that reminded her of nights past when she would quiver under a thunderstorm, the drummed beats colliding with her nest of fears.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets

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We Come in All Shades

Vows of White and Gold

Color Me Crazy

Hue of the Day

Swirls

Saturation

Red to Blue and Back Again

Under a Lavender Sky

The Rainbow of Who You Are

Dream the Kaleidoscope

Painted Melancholia

Stormfront Mindset

Stories (325)