Top Spin

"Emma is assigned a new tennis coach to teach her top spin."

The cold inconsistent wind was irritating her, blowing her long brown bangs into her eyes, swirling around her bare legs, and teasingly lifting her short blue skirt. Emma cursed her uniform under her breath. It was autumn and the temperature...

Chasing It’s when you turn and look away, From me your eyes do shift and stray, My heart, it sinks into dismay. It’s when it’s night and we’re alone, In leaving me you are so prone, To then ignore my...

Soft Moments: Sunset

"Aya runs into a man at the university, or more literally, he runs into her."

Soft slow music was playing, the lights dim and flickering over the mass of people around me. Every movement in the crowd had slowed to match the rhythm, voices were lowered to barely a whisper, and the crazy dancers had...

Sweetly, Tenderly Love Me!

"A poem of longing."

 Sweetly, tenderly love me! Throw thy strong arms around me,  Hug me in thy warm embrace,  Let me be your hidden key. Softly, gently please love me!  Press your lips against my own,  Like spring seeds our love be sown,  Bud and grow delicately. Desperately do love me!  Pull...

The Pearl To Which I Bowed

"And will never bow to again."

Into a foreign land I fell, Where eyes were cold and few could tell, That I was scared and lonely there, That I knew not what land thought fair. I was ready I was brave, So I thought til I...

The Smallest Sadness

"The smallest sign of sadness is enough..."

Sometimes I take you for granted, Our relationship is slanted, You’re absolutely devoted, Your faith and love denoted. Sometimes I’m mean and rude, You always put up with my mood, I’m angered thrice as fast as you, I’m a little...

Golden Lioness: Her Own Pride

"Kelly leaves behind all she knows to find a new life."

When she graduated from Kellogg Northwestern University in Illinois, Kelly was probably the happiest woman on earth. Not only had Kelly received her Managerial Analytics Certificate in four years, placing as one of the top students in her year, and...