My hands on half-turned pages,
my shoulder hugs the plaster side
of the endless hollow hallways
luminous with fluorescent light.
Just outside the sun’s embrace
in this empty insulated space.
It’s so late that even rain
comes tapping at the door,
wandering, looking for
a warmer place to stay.
I open the windows,
and let the poor thing in
Looks like it has nowhere else to go
but here, at the edge of the world,
under a sky without stars
on a night dark as crows
Brian Liu is a senior studying computer science at University Park. He writes: “I have always been a bit interested in creative writing, but I truly got into the hobby when I joined the Creative Writing Club here at PSU. I’m a big fan of dark fantasy, supernatural fiction, and stories with happy endings. But don’t let me start talking about shows or games that I like; the conversation could last for days.”