The sky is amazing. So many stars. A view you will never see living your whole life in a city. I must be a hundred kilometres or more from the nearest town of any size. The night of the new moon, too, means a view that too few people in this world ever ge…

Night clings to the forest like a shroud. The darkness is nearly absolute, the silhouettes of the trees only just a hair's-breadth deeper black.

The sounds of life are everywhere, however. The chirps of insects and the calls of nocturnal predators. Th…

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Trissa walked through the pouring rain. She was getting soaked, but it was hard to care.

She stepped under an overhang, finally taking a moment to relax. She unzipped her jacket, and carefully removed the poor broken mess inside. Her heart was in so many …

The cyan girl struggled to no avail. "Please don't, I didn't do anything to you!"

"I told you it's not personal." She raised her scythe into the air to strike, before being blasted off by lilac energy.

The cyan girl immediately scrambled to another ro…

Disrespectful

Apathetic

Noisy

Tough

Evil

-

Decent

Astute

Notable

Thoughtful

Effective

-

Lazy

Insipid

Zero

Bum

Embarrasing

Timid

Homely

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Lovely

Interested

Zealous

Bright

Energetic

Tolerant

Humble

I sat alone on the beach, skipping stones into the inky black water. The sun had long since gone, leaving the stars alone to try to light the night. A cold breeze blew, forcing me to shiver for warmth.

If anyone was here, they would've advised I go insid…

He winds his way through the chaos, trying to avoid bumping into anyone. Such a thing is nigh impossible here. But it hardly bothers him. Here, anonymity is paramount.

Finally, he reaches a dark corner where two grey men sit. He sits across from them, a…

Sleep steadily slips from my aching eyelids

desperate for one more hour of escape

of reflection

of processing the pounds of pressure I'm currently cracking

under waters,

rapids, and riptides hidden in the depths of a "simple request for information regard…

"This is my garden, now," explained Sarah, gesturing expansively at the tiny fenced area. "Mommy said so," she continued, pointing back towards the ivy-covered house set back across the pasture, in a stand of trees.

Gus, her equally-young companion, sh…

In mathematics, a point of inflection is a point on a curve where the concavity of the curve changes, a momentary point where the slope of the curve is equal to the slope of its tangent at that point. Points of inflection mark the transitions between upwa…

There's nothing I would rather see

Than your smile as you walk to me

There's nothing that I'd rather do

Than have the guts to run to you

There's nothing I would rather say

Than "I love you; don't go away"

There's nothing in my future left

I've got no cour…

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She lay on her new planet. How wonderful it was to have her own planet, as she'd always deserved. Really, she had an entire solar system all her own, but it was just a tiny corner of the infinite universe.

One day, she wanted to have more. But this was en…

"- Come in, I've lost your signal. I say again, -"

I stopped when my partner put a hand on my shoulder.

"You're scaring the civilians."

I let go of the transmit button with some reluctance, suddenly aware that wide-eye stares were following my pacing o…

Now ain't that a curious sight.

Therin watched the fire from the alley. His eyes used to heavy darkness, he easily spotted the young half-elf, soot barely visible againt his dusky grey skin. Pulling his collar about his face, he pursued the boy.

A…

I laid on my back on the forest floor, the deadfall beneath me striving vainly to push me closer to the sky. Perched above me a black raven rested on a branch, peering intently down at me, just as it had for the last two hours. The creature never moved, n…

unravel me without delay

with batting thread and macrame

my mental health's unmade today

and rapidly I start to fray

.

the stomach acids eat at me

my eyes lose focus and can’t see

my skin is sloughing off so free

cascades of wellness one two three

.

today…

For the first time in a long time, I feel like myself. Of course, this does have its pros and cons.

On the pro side, I'm actually social. I can actually engage people in conversation. Conversations that I honestly care about. And about anything! Music, h…

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Hey ditty ditty, the cat or the kitty

the cow jumped over the moon

But her heels didn't make it

So she hid under a blanket

And vowed to never leave her room

~

The stars twinkled harshly

The moon asked her nicely

but the cow stayed locked all away

Until th…

Sometimes broken means better

sometimes failure means experienced

means strong enough for the storm

brave enough for the waves of tears

weathered enough for the strikes of shame

hardened enough for the echoes of failure

fierce enough for the icy rejection…

I walked through your ear drum

Headed straight for your Parietal Lobe

Deliciously discordant echoes bouncing

Through the hallways of your soul

.

I strolled into your Frontal Lobe

Music wafting in louder from

Somewhere beneath your bleeding heart

I glance…

Aug. 10 2016

I put my pieces back differently after we left each other shattered.

So when I see you again my heart races but not in the same rhythm.

When you speak, I hear your words but your voice is different.

When I try to talk, almost everything…

"And how will you do that?"

"It is a particular truth about secrets, Astarlane -"

"Please stop calling me that."

"- Astarlane, is that when you stop and look in just the right place, they betray themselves."

He stopped, and looked around. Just like th…