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a series of choices
I’ve been thinking about fate a lot lately. I’m not sure if I have enough faith to believe in a destiny controlled by a higher power....
Becca Carroll
Jan 6, 20202 min read
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rotten fruit
you change from grapefruit to strawberry; it’s as startling as the first flower’s bloom. but the rain feels more like a new beginning,...
Becca Carroll
Nov 16, 20191 min read
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hospice
A grandiose bed in the middle of the living room, left no space for anything except the elephant of death and all the tubes and...
Becca Carroll
May 28, 20191 min read
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less layers
shedding skin like sweaters after winter retreats, breaking through layers to allow space for the lemonade summer, hoping the sunbeams...
Becca Carroll
Mar 14, 20191 min read
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your past self
I think we (or maybe it’s just me) all spend too much time worrying that we’re remembering the past too much. looking back on it. living...
Becca Carroll
Mar 14, 20192 min read
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a becca-shaped space
I think about someone filling the Becca-shaped space that I left. or maybe I stayed put and you left. maybe my space has been collecting...
Becca Carroll
Dec 18, 20181 min read
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bare branches
what happened your love for me was supposed to be strong and unwavering you were the last leaf on the tree before winter and the breeze...
Becca Carroll
Mar 6, 20181 min read
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light needs darkness
I watch her face as she talks about him. like he was her sun and now there are only dark moons. years later, I watch her face again as he...
Becca Carroll
Jan 4, 20181 min read
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bomb cyclone
I’d like to believe that the wind is whistling so loud and persistently because it finally feels powerful enough to show the world its...
Becca Carroll
Jan 4, 20181 min read
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i look for you in the sky
there are galaxies exploding from your chest. there are planets orbiting behind your eyes. stars fly out of your mouth when you speak....
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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1:47 AM
it just hit me that you are not mine anymore.
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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shaky ground
once I asked you, "do you think we are too similar?" you replied, "sometimes I think we are too different and too similar all at once."...
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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he wasn't gentle
my heart beat in your hands I begged silently "be gentle" blood dripped slowly down your wrists and rushed as your grip tightened on my...
Becca Carroll
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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Conscious Meat Eating: How You Can Help Save the Environment
A blog about how conscious meat eating and reducing the consumption of livestock can help save the environment.
Becca Carroll
Oct 24, 20174 min read
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be gentle
I used to pretend that i didn't believe in love It couldn't hurt me if I didn't give it the power Now I watch my heart beat in your hands
Becca Carroll
Oct 11, 20171 min read
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drowning
people die in mere inches of water but yet I am still alive even after drowning in a pool of self-hatred
Becca Carroll
Sep 19, 20171 min read
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falling
he says “I’m afraid of commitment” but he has an arm full of tattoos he says “I'm terrified of falling” but he jumps off cliffs into...
Becca Carroll
Jul 16, 20171 min read
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dark and twisty
I once read that humans can only cry for 7 minutes at a time and anything after that is self inflicted what does science say about the...
Becca Carroll
Jun 23, 20171 min read
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lemonade
lemonade is not always as sweet as it sounds and sometimes sugar is actually salt and sometimes salt is actually just a boy with green...
Becca Carroll
May 4, 20171 min read
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nightmares (fiction)
A Snapchat notification popped up on my phone and when I glanced at it, I saw the time. It was 3:23 AM. Why am I always up so late? I was...
Becca Carroll
Dec 30, 20163 min read
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