1. sometimes a bar of soap just doesn't feel like a bar of soap

Written by: Courtney Campbell

( Arts / Fiction & Poetry )

sometimes a bar of soap just doesn't feel like a bar of soapor a knife like it can do much more cuttingsometimes a toilet brush stares at the ceramicwondering what it ever did to get therean overgrown t...

2. she didn't say nothing

Written by: Courtney Campbell

( Arts / Fiction & Poetry )

you know how ungrateful children can be. shelooked up at her mother with a look -  with that look. that look of i-won't-say-nothing that says everything. after all that she had done! after...

3. i blame you, helena popcorn vendor

Written by: Courtney Campbell

( Arts / Fiction & Poetry )

she's a popcorn vendorno she's not an airplaneor a shiny factory toolor an illegible governmentdocument. she's a popcornvendor.

4. searching for shoes

Written by: Courtney Campbell

( Arts / Fiction & Poetry )

she wanted to try on her mother's shoes soshe opened the closet. in the closet she found hard pursed lips and a voice of steel. a forehead crease and polite gesture. she found a gravel pit way back in th...

5. a lollipop wrapper (or a vacuum cleaner bag)

Written by: Courtney Campbell

( Arts / Fiction & Poetry )

it didn't start this way. in the beginningshe didn't put anythinganywhere.but then again, no one put anythingin her either, which canleave one feelingquite empty.