Outsider Sketch Wrapped tightly in a dark blue-green comforter, she snuggles up against the oversized pillows on her dorm room bed. The shades are drawn and only the red and green glow from tiny lights on those ubiquitous little electronic devices b Continue Reading...
The birth canal may be seen as a shameful place to come from because it is dirty and bloody. Here is a poem I wrote to relay the impact it left me. "Birth" Giving in to such idiocies and prophecies and as if some heresy was committed. Still you an Continue Reading...
Down These Mean Streets believe that every child is born a poet, and every poet is a child. Poetry to me was always a very sacred form of expression. (qtd. In Fisher 2003) Introduction / Background History Born Juan Pedro Tomas, of Puerto Rican and Continue Reading...
Carmilla chooses her victims (young women isolated from society and without friendship) mainly because they are easy prey. She is a sensual, tender and affectionate woman herself -- beautiful to behold, as Laura describes: "She was slender, and wonde Continue Reading...
