New Year's Short Story Challenge 2016

HELLO DEAR READERS.

It's been six months since you last heard from me. My bad. But! I return, as for the third year running, I have participated in a New Year's short story challenge with other writers on the web.

Confession: this year I broke the rules.

I wrote poetry instead.

I wrote poetry for the first time since middle school. Ish.

And it kind of doesn't entirely suck as much as I thought it would.

And as per the rules of the challenge, I now must post what I have written. So. Below is my new poem, Wings of Ink, for your enjoyment. Happy New Year!

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Wings of Ink

by Lily Jenness

She flies on wings of ink

Riding paper boats to other worlds

Pages rustling

Stories whispering

She flies on wings of ink

On half-thought metaphors scrawled on old grocery receipts

Ideas jotted crookedly down on lined paper

And stories nibbling on her brain

She flies on wings of ink

Words brought to life

Through heart and thought

And fingers and soul

She flies on wings of ink

Through good and bad

On late nights and rainy afternoons

And in corners of the library

She flies on wings of ink

To other times and different places

Visiting people, going on adventures

And learning things

She flies on wings of ink

Ink laid down by others

Ink penned down herself

Ink written out by friends near and far

She flies on wings of ink

For when her soul is lifted high on printed letters

And her mind is full of imagined sights and sounds and emotions

That is when she feels most like herself