Monthly Archives: July 2014

The Final Tear

“So help me–” he began, his voice cutting through the dim, rancid air that seems to have settled. He spoke, and her heart stuttered. Oh, the world stuttered. (Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly–) A flutter of fire, a fractaling explosion of … Continue reading

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I Am Yours

I believe I am yours in a way more than breath and blood. I am yours as the leaf belongs to the sun. The warmth of you opens me, and I sway in the wind, the song of my trembling … Continue reading

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Independence Day

Doesn’t mean that much to you on the surface, I know, but I’ll bet there’s nothing you love more than using your finger to set off sparklers, to delight them, watching the looks in their eyes that mirror your own.

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Touch

I haven’t been touched in eons. I haven’t held your hand in mine for a thousand thousand years. Your eyes haven’t been on me and it’s left me in the dark. I’ve been all alone for epochs. I am aching … Continue reading

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Where Were You?

Where were you this time where were you when I was on fire and climbing for the sun? Where were you when I was everything that shattered, everything brittle, everything gone? What I want more than anything is to take … Continue reading

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