by Elle | Apr 22, 2019 | Writing
You’re sitting there in the half-light with a weight crushing your chest. You imagine spirits dancing around in edges in the flickering shadows. Your imagination taunts with things you can’t understand. There is a screen in front of you, maybe it’s blank or maybe...
by Elle | Apr 22, 2019 | Fiction
The ash smudged my skin, a black stain across the pale surface. I twisted leg back and forth, thinking of Cinderella as I sat on the edge of the stone fireplace. The smudge looked like a mark of hard work, of honesty and goodness but I’d only opened the grate...
by Elle | Apr 22, 2019 | Life, Writing
A few years ago I came across a podcast called Death, Glory or Disappointment, one of the episodes was titled “Be More Villain.” In that episode the show host, Dan Meredith talked about how many of us could learn lessons from villains. I’ve always been...
by Elle | Apr 22, 2019 | Writing
One day in my college social psychology class my professor asked the class “How long is the Mississippi river?” The first student guessed that the river was 600 miles long. He went around the room asking everyone how long the river was and the...
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