A Good Little Girls Zine

Pilot Light

Tomorrow I’ll put out the baby pilot lamp that I’ve kept going for the past year and a half. The remains of a bonfire built by sparks that built on sparks.

A light that burned high and bright at a time when the sky was a fire blanket that smothered my hopes and dreams.

Tomorrow I sleep under another blanket, holding tight those days of burning, burning, burning.

Tomorrow I look one last time at Our blue flame that filled the pages with experimental words; a fire that ignited a room inside me for pure love and play and imagination.

Tomorrow I’ll watch as that burnt yellow-red-orange gently goes to bed and I’ll wait to see what grows there next.

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Sonia Chintha

Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.

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