The Ohio State University showed its true colors this week and I think you will find that its students are not surprised. OSU claims to care about the safety of its students, but they have proven that this is not true. Thursday, April 25, 2024, 36 peaceful protesters were violently arrested and since then harmful…
Author: taylor.thompson1013
the epigraph
my mother taught me how to play solitaire. she taught me the ways to survive being alone, perfected on nights when the silence was too much to bear. listening to her cry from the top stair. when the men of the week have long since flown never will i ever cry like this, I…
Free
Waking up in the morning I feel free Free from the worries that once plagued me I walk to work and I wonder about how it used to be walking home alone with my fingers around my keys Worried about the people on the road that I would see worried that one day I would…
my time in the wild
When I was seven years old, I went to Slate Run with my grandparents, my sister, my cousin, and their mom. We walked around the front of the park and eventually sat on these benches and sat there. And sat there. And sat there. Eventually, we began to try to run around and play in…
my calypso
an alternative one shot that takes place in the book i am currently writing.
The Love of My Parents
raised voices, thrown plates children huddled in the corner soft kisses, sweet caresses leaving bruises in their wake bar fights, hospital beds rain falling down their cheeks curly hair, straight hair things passed to our daughters long days, short nights wonder if i’m like my father heart breaks, short sight wonder if i’m like my…
Mother’s Day
TW: Abuse, Alcoholism Every year on Mother’s Day, Charlotte’s dad picks her up and spends the day with her. It’s a different place every year. One year they went to the park. Another to the movies. Another to the pool. Each year something different, and it was Charlotte’s favorite day of the year. Daddy…
Were you, daddy?
The first time I waited for you, I still believed that you would come. You didn’t. I sat at that window and watched every car drive down that old desolate road and was convinced that it was you because “No one drives down this road it has to be him.” It wasn’t. Blowing…
the boy
Everything she had she gave to the boy he never gave her a thing in return I guess he only knew how to destroy she never cared cause she didn’t feel the burn her mother told her to give what she got for she was a kind girl in her youth too she thought that…
the book
the sky was blue with a hint of burnt orange the coolness felt upon waking up seemed like a joke now he was sweating from the steadily rising temperature new trees growing green sprouts and buds all around an orange flower in the distance the hike up the mountain face in the morning leaning back…