Category: Published by Amelia
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In 1998, Emily Slatin embarked on a journey that simply wasn’t considered an option before the turn of the twenty-first century. Plenty of people started websites back then, but often only in the hopes of making a quick buck. So, to say she was ahead of her time was an understatement. As a long-time photographer…
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This will be the introduction to my upcoming collected works due out in May 2027. But I decided to go ahead and get this out there now to get my story straight and provide some biographical context to everything that will be included in the collection. I was born this way. After all, the Creator…
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Lightning bolt streaked across the skyBifurcated the heavens ultraviolentSubdivided the world into red and blueWhy not mix them into Violet I found out all your words were trueBut not before my heart got violentBefore I could assemble the crewThe choir of my heartsong went silent Took flight on crippled wingsTurbulence tore the rudderEven as my…
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Time takes its tollOn a withered dreamThe love couldn’t holdAnother failure tale told It is a pageFull of regretsUntested testsKnees buckledEyes couldn’t stop crying No method of apologyJust reflections in an anthologyTurned my back on the pastSolemnly, it is no longer welcome Expression of depressionLacked in certain directionStricken by unusual infectionNot allowed to feel such…
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It is 2am, and I am not okay. Not worth trying to force myself back to sleep. I still have a lot of heartbreak to properly process. At the end of the day, I only have myself. And that needs to be enough, even when it isn’t. What I need is just one or two…
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On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. He was a man staring down the barrel of systemic, violent oppression, fully aware that his life was in imminent danger. In that speech, he said, “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” …
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For over a decade, my peers and I navigated the right-angle corridors of Academia, trying to prepare for life beyond them. About halfway through, I recognized that schools often function more like a maze than a clear path to adulthood. The maps we draw in our younger years are frequently incomplete, and the guidance we…
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It’s long been believed that Leonardo DaVinci said that “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” In the case of this Tunes and Tales adjacent novella, Stillwater’s Daughter, it’s time for me to just put this out into the world. It’s basically a second draft that I tweaked a bunch recently. The story is loosely based…
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It was another day at the office, in the Year of Our Lord 2012, yet another day where the universe seemed to conspire against me. My inbox overflowed with social media updates and inconsequential emails. The news app on my smartphone was a carousel of doom and gloom. Rocking back and forth in my cheap…
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A society that normalizes bullying is no society at all. Yet in our grand age of progress, we’ve apparently decided that bullying suddenly isn’t that big of a problem. It’s as if we took all those anti-bullying campaigns from the early 2000s and collectively decided to toss them into the same memory hole where we…