Fiction

Lit Up Summer Prompt — the smell of grass drifting through fans on every windowsill i’d talk like a robot through the spinblades as they carried the evening from out to in a coolness well earned after hours in the sun’s grip i’d lie awake then with scraped knees & scratched up ankles from running through underbrush chalk dust nestled deep underneath my fingernails from genius gibberscrawls on the neighbors’ sidewalks i’d…

Heaven is a story of two middle schoolers, the unnamed protagonist and Kojima who are the subjects to relentless bullying at school. The story begins with their disjointed experiences with bullying and their unspoken exchange of subliminal sympathy. Kojima approaches him to initiate a friendship and they begin meeting and…