Chapter 5: The mall had closed three years earlier. Seth went because his wife used to love it, not the shops particularly, she liked the food court, the fountain, the strange little stores that sold trinkets and oddities. She liked people watching so much she could spend hours sitting on a bench, inventing lives for strangers. He hated waiting for her. The entrance was boarded up, but a service door at the side of the building had been left unsecured. He slipped inside. The

Dear Dreadful Diary, Today I went on a shopping spree!! Edward and I have a fun date night planned soon and so I decided to spruce up my wardrobe a bit. I went back to that same mall we met at, isn’t that romantic? I hit up all of the hip stores I saw lots of young people at when I first arrived! I will say the mall was quite dead today. There was almost nobody else around, just the workers and me. Although it did make my trip feel a bit special, almost like it was my own pri

taking a break from the parody newspaper covers to do something a little different today After everything Is it so absurd To crawl into the dirt To have an entire lifetime Swallowed Slowly Slower in the winter And to have a name Said so many times If one is lucky During a life Etched into rock Quieted for eternity Not a yell anymore Or a praise or a gasp Not sound at all But simply curves in a surface It is almost to say I was never meant to still be I was always intend