Lex Colwell
Bio
Lex is a part-time student, part-time nervous poet. For several years she kept her poems to herself before COVID-19 forced boredom to take over. You can find her individual works on Instagram @home.grown_poetry
Stories (5/0)
4 Wars Old
The scariest dystopian aren’t the ones built off imagination, but history. Doomsday isn’t some new idea; Doomsday isn’t something that snuck in on the small family. Doomsday was something they lived with every day. Sometimes they say the oldest child is four wars old, lived through a bombing on their first day of life, a mass murder on their fifth birthday - at that time the child was only minutes from meeting me. The next war defined the child’s future.
By Lex Colwell3 years ago in Fiction
Green Bean Botany
It started with a video game, really, and a longing for a simple past. Isn’t that how everything starts now that we’ve become riddled with disease? “Stardew Valley” – a tiny, little, indie game that’s mimetic of my childhood: holding my blue Gameboy Advance, cartridge sticking out of the bottom, directing my digital farmer around town with a tiny arrow pad; perfectly child-sized. “Harvest Moon,” a game with cows, and cats, and chickens. Nothing stressful, just farming. As a child I adored the idea of calm, it was something absent in my household.
By Lex Colwell3 years ago in Motivation
