I need it! I need it, now! Don’t judge me. You don’t know me and we all have beasts on our backs. Mine’s as demanding as yours calls to me at every street corner.
Teens don’t fear time or death,
but are wracked by the question, “Why?” A girl asks that of a
mirror she’s come to hate while dreaming of another life.
A young prodigy is coerced to
perform at the inauguration of an
abhorrent, new leader. She must
choose to comply to protect her
family or resist the man and suffer.
Poverty strikes a privileged man who learns pride is weaker than hunger. Standing among the rebuked and maligned, he’s offered a chance to see what’s beautiful about being human.
Institutions make poor parents.
this little girl, craving play, can
attest. when she’s denied being
a child she escapes instead
into her only option left, her mind.