Category Archives: Fact and Fiction
Sleep
Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks Sometimes I dream of burning metal, an aneurism smelling stains, staining smells into the nostrils of my nightmares, places daydreams go to visit, rare to return. This is a place speckled blue and bright, dark … Continue reading →
Romance of the Typewriter
Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks There’s something so elegant about the typewriter. It’s clicks clacking, paper reeling, disappearing, reappearing with stamps, our words tattooed onto white skin. I miss the pleasure of punching keys; the tragedy of mistakes, the beauty … Continue reading →
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Self, February Something
Filed under Daily Vanity, Fact and Fiction, Sights, Stories
Tagged as chelsea marie hicks, photographs, photos, self portrait
Searching For Salt and Finding the Bearded Woman
Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks I sought the taste of neon in the morning, its glow an apparent absence only present in the irises of night crawlers dripping pale, waiting for the sun. I searched my skin for treasure troves … Continue reading →
Sheets That Smell Just Like A Day At The Beach
Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks At first she only tasted the faint smell of salt seasoning the air, unaccompanied by any sight or sound. Her view was enveloped in a darkness so consuming she was momentarily convinced that salt had … Continue reading →
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Tagged as beach, deja vu, dreams, fiction, short fiction, writing
List Season : : Books Read in 2011
1. Americana by Don DeLillo 2. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 3. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim 4. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 5. You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers 6. The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac … Continue reading →
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Ten days
Though I seem to be constantly in a state of self-reflection, I have yet to put into words what this past year has been, what I’ve experienced, how it has changed me, what it’s meant to me, the people I’ve … Continue reading →
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Tagged as foreigner, korea, life abroad, returning to america, seoul, traveling
A month of stories… Day #?
Well, it was a good idea, but forcing myself to write a story everyday took on a feeling that too closely resembled force feeding when I simply wasn’t hungry. The stories created from my failed project are ones I’m surprisingly … Continue reading →
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A month of stories…Day #5
Waygookin Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks “I’ll have uhh…hana of that,” Kevin pointed at the menu filled with symbols of undecipherable text. “I thought you were vegetarian,” Shin Ji Won asked, pronouncing veggie “bay-gee.” “I am,” he responded, sensing through … Continue reading →
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A month of stories…Day #4
Everything Will Be Fine Written by Chelsea Marie Hicks As a young girl, Allie roamed the overgrown garden of her home’s backyard jungle with a fervor, weaving her way through mysterious green, growing things and setting her bare-feet footprints in … Continue reading →
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