top of page
Welcome
Here is where you can find all things book related from author H.A. Wright-- where to buy her books, updates on forthcoming projects, and discussion boards. I am so happy you're here.
Search
First Time
I am fascinated by people and the way they live and breathe so effortlessly. I like to watch them dance— twirling dipping sinking inside...
Holly Wright
Feb 28, 20201 min read
Jigsaw Heart
Something inside of her was broken. A kite without a string. A bird without wings. A heart without a beat. Something inside of her...
Holly Wright
Jan 25, 20201 min read
O Icarus, of the Fearless Flight
Toward the burning sun, higher than they’d advise is wise, I fly. Caution, they say, not too high, you’ll only ever fall. But I only want...
Holly Wright
Jan 18, 20201 min read
Astral
I'm a wraith, floating through my life. I look in mirrors and can’t believe what I’m seeing. I haunt my own skin. My thoughts are real, I...
Holly Wright
Jan 10, 20201 min read
In Memoriam
The girl who became a ghost was only twenty-six when her heart ceased to beat. The story of her death was a familiar one. A dark night,...
Holly Wright
Dec 28, 20195 min read
Countdown to the New Beginning
i'm seeing stars drowning in the ocean and rainbows tangled into nooses and burned out hope i'm seeing wishes floating away and never...
Holly Wright
Dec 27, 20191 min read
A Drink With God
I was four whiskey sours and a shot of Jameson deep when a girl who called herself God slid onto the barstool beside me and decided to...
Holly Wright
Dec 20, 20199 min read
The Face of God
Sometimes I pray to God like if I don’t I’m going to die. My lungs will cease to breathe, my heart will fail to beat, my skeleton will...
Holly Wright
Dec 20, 20192 min read
A Letter to Eighteen-Year-Old Me
I know you’ll live. Despite the agony of him leaving. Despite the cut of his words. I know those things made you feel like you were...
Holly Wright
Nov 30, 20191 min read
Legacy
There’s a spot on the wall of my childhood bedroom. It’s not visible, but every time I passed it I could see you holding my sister there...
Holly Wright
Nov 10, 20192 min read
The Birds
"Write about how a person's perspective on an event from their childhood shifted in their adulthood." Prompt given by Reedsy...
Holly Wright
Oct 20, 20197 min read
Innocence: A Question
I knew a man who lost his mind over swing sets and drank like he was trying to drown himself. I knew a woman who broke into a smile...
Holly Wright
Oct 13, 20192 min read
Winter
Someone told me once I remind them of winter Beautiful but cold harsh dark Breathing me in froze their lungs My skin made their...
Holly Wright
Oct 6, 20191 min read
Blue Period
I send my writing to a boy who’s better at playing at being anyone else than he actually is at being himself. I’ve done it for years. I...
Holly Wright
Sep 29, 20192 min read
The Grand Canyon
“When someone’s heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the...
Holly Wright
Sep 21, 20194 min read
Ships in the Night
My life has always been half looking down the barrel of the gun and waiting for the spark and half staring through the eye of the noose...
Holly Wright
Sep 21, 20191 min read
Mourning Birds
Why do we assume birds are singing? Maybe we’ve taken their agony for beauty. Maybe those lovely notes are cries of pain. All their...
Holly Wright
Sep 6, 20191 min read
The Seven Deadly Sins
“Wrath” Forgiving isn’t my job I don’t care about peace I want justice I want pain felt by those who cause it I want their spines...
Holly Wright
Aug 31, 20192 min read
The Destruction
"War Zone" In my mind it’s a war zone I’m a single person caught in a maelstrom of whistling bullets and exploding grenades Debris and...
Holly Wright
Aug 24, 20191 min read
Untitled
Magic has a definition that changes I know because I’ve seen it There’s magic in the way snowflakes hover in space the way they cling to...
Holly Wright
Aug 16, 20191 min read
bottom of page