Mona Angéline

[I need to scream]

I need to scream

But nothing comes

Because it's this family

That doesn't speak

Of blues and hurt

It's this family

that doesn't scream

And so

I'm trapped inside

It's all trapped inside

Forgive me while I run.

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable new writer, artist, athlete, scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. Her writing was accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, Down in the Dirt, Viridian Door, The Machine!, Whisky Blot, and Academy of Mind and Heart. She's a regular guest editor for scientific journals. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com.