Chocolate and Weird are Good.

It was the 7th grade. I was at play practice. I walked out of the Green Room to hear Griffin Black tell someone I was weird. He literally said “Mary is so weird.” And it wasn’t the good kind of funny weird that he was talking about. I wanted to cry, I was so hurt. He saw me…

A Letter for Marmots

I adore the way autumn seems to fall away from everything. The way the trees stretch and yawn in preparation for a long winter’s rest. The scent of their brethren crackling through someone’s chimney out into the crisp clean air. Even when an occasional breeze sends a peculiar buzz of warmth throughout…

Sunday Lunches.

I’ve had people ask me before, “What do you value the most?” People that know me might say I value theatre, superheroes, or video games the most. But people who really know me would know that I value my family above all else. My entire family used to be extremely close. We are pretty small, so it…

Fish and Falling

I was young when they started. For a time the setting was the Peter Pan ride at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. To board the ride, you…

Freak Out

Throughout all of my life I’ve had the tendency of being obedient and having anxiety when I don’t follow the rules. When I was six years old, I ran across the street, and it hit me. No it literally hit me. “It” was a moped on a street in Mexico. I remember my mom telling me to hold her hand and stay on the…

Emily Fischer

Mad thunderclouds storm throughout the sky.