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Somewhere Between Day & Night
How can you sit there and refuse to look at me after all that we've been through? Haven't you hurt me enough? I loved you more than...
Aja Sun Houlton
Apr 24, 2020
The Things I Don't Talk About
1. Three weeks ago, I moved into a house on Cabell. Today I cried because I am afraid of getting older. I just want to feel safe again....
Aja Sun Houlton
Apr 7, 2020
One Year Isn't Enough
I met you a year ago. Last March was thunderstorms and cherry blossoms and going to Preston every day and lingering a little longer each...
Aja Sun Houlton
Mar 28, 2020
Running with the Wolves
I wake up and the world is too quiet. Shouldn't everything be breaking? I take a shower, then another one. I wash him out of my hair. I...
Aja Sun Houlton
Mar 24, 2020
The Light We Lost
You used to be the person I told everything to — I'd get a 96% on my test and I'd call you. Now my messages don't even deliver. Please...
Aja Sun Houlton
Mar 16, 2020
Afterthoughts
I'm twenty years old and I'm driving with the windows down in February and something stirs deep in my chest. It's a paradox where I feel...
Aja Sun Houlton
Feb 18, 2020
Retrograde
This is for the first time we met: how I didn't know that I would love you yet. It simply felt like I had known you my whole life. Eight...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jan 25, 2020
I Release You (Into the Universe)
Forgiving you hurts more than holding onto the bitterness. Nobody tells you that it'll hurt. Forgiveness feels like surrendering...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jan 13, 2020
This One is For You
You were the first boy I ever loved. I go back and forth between believing it was nothing and feeling like it was everything. I'm not...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jan 8, 2020
2 0 1 9
I'm sitting outside the Starbucks in my hometown and it's 65°F out and the sun is glowy on my face and this moment feels like a really...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 26, 2019
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"What's he like?" He is wonderful, in more ways than I know how to explain. He's the moment before I fall asleep— that tiny flash of...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 9, 2019
Like Water
Everything hurts. Can't they see that I'm hurting? I've never felt this kind of desperation before. I don't know what to do with all this...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 8, 2019
7 things that make me sad
1. You only want to kiss me when you're high—which is all the time— but it still makes my throat tight. 2. I don't remember what it's...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 11, 2019
Places I Won't Go
i'm standing before you— naked and vulnerable, with nothing to lose and nothing to prove. i don't know who you are anymore, but your...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 6, 2019
Twenty!
Today I turned twenty. And I'm thinking about how twenty used to feel so far off, but now it's here and it's real and somehow it just...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 4, 2019
Shapeshifting
Always feeling a little out of place, like I could fit in if I wanted to... But do I want to? What if I woke up one day and drank some...
Aja Sun Houlton
Oct 29, 2019
Relativity
i hadn't met Grief until last month. since then, three people in my life have died. and i'm sitting in a back pew in church trying to...
Aja Sun Houlton
Oct 18, 2019
Compatibility
She is simple and quiet and soft around the edges. And I am just here, roaring like a summer thunderstorm, trying to untangle shooting...
Aja Sun Houlton
Aug 28, 2019
Holy Ground
A whole summer of waiting and I'm back at WKU now. The sun feels warm and fresh on my skin, so I sit outside to take it all in... casting...
Aja Sun Houlton
Aug 25, 2019
Metaphysics
A year ago, I stuffed my things into my car, drove two hours south and unpacked my life at a college I didn't want to go to. I wanted to...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jul 17, 2019
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