• Selena commented on the post, chat 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    She spoke to me like we’re still close, like nothing had happened and she hadn’t turned me out. As if she thought I was expendable, but at the last minute just good enough to make the cut.

  • Selena wrote about the word accordion 1 year, 4 months ago

    he plays the accordion like my grandpa used to. and he loves their music too. the fold, unfold, the keys they press. together they make an amazing mess, of sound and older memories. he plays just like my grandpa used to.

  • Selena wrote about the word palette 1 year, 5 months ago

    her palette of paints- dried, so the colors aren’t quite right. they set too fast. and the plastic palette lies there pretty, paint stroked and color favor, but her canvas shines, white and light, strangely uncovered. unprotected, lonely.

  • Selena wrote about the word pressed 1 year, 8 months ago

    alleged reluctance manifests in pressed repressed and ironed button-ups.

  • Selena wrote about the word crouch 1 year, 8 months ago

    she stood standing there, holding the camera still as she could. but the angle’s wrong.
    she bent down a bit, crouching near it, with the lens gripped tight, but the light is different here.

  • Selena wrote about the word clipped 1 year, 8 months ago

    he cut the newspaper article out last sunday, clipped the coupons in the shopping pages, and tried desperately to think of a way to organize his life like the neat piles of sorted coupons he was making.

  • Selena wrote about the word chance 1 year, 9 months ago

    so if i had the chance i think, i’d like to tell him just one thing. it’s not that kind of love we think. but more the kind where i don’t want to live without. not that i can’t, just that i don’t want to. would never choose to. but that’s not the kind of [...]

  • Selena wrote about the word chance 1 year, 9 months ago

    the chance the choice, too many different ways to go. i’m indecisive to a fault. for myself- that too. but more for others. it’s their choice, their chance maybe or maybe not. so why should i be the one to decide? take the chance or not? it’s your life not mine. your chance, your choice.

  • Selena and Profile picture of Bethanybethany are now friends 1 year, 9 months ago

  • Selena posted an update: 1 year, 9 months ago

    bad day nightmares

  • Selena wrote about the word root 1 year, 9 months ago

    she stood rooted to the floor. her mind in places yesterday. eyes glassy out of focus her mouth hung slightly open. he’d been watching her stand there from his seat at his terminal. waiting for her to move- it had been a while maybe ten minutes- no doubt infinitely longer or shorter in her mind. [...]

  • Selena wrote about the word thunder 1 year, 10 months ago

    one mississippi… two mississippi… the thunder crashed in the distance and the eyes of the little girl sitting in the window got bigger. her voice got softer, lower and deeper as she stared half-terrified and half in amazement at the clouds rolling in. one mississippi…

  • Selena wrote about the word violet 1 year, 10 months ago

    violet eyes, violent disguise

  • Selena posted an update: 1 year, 10 months ago

    ’driving in your car, i never never wanna go home… take me out tonight cause i wanna see people and i wanna see light… there is a light and it never goes out’- The Smiths

  • Olivia wrote about the word expecting 1 year, 10 months ago

    expecting, expectations- the greatest ones of all. and just for a moment promises kept and all is where it belongs. and the expectations don’t fall flat of reality.

  • Olivia wrote about the word expecting 1 year, 10 months ago

    where are the lights- the ones we can see- through the lens of the camera- the perfect sight bleeds- deeper than anything just seen with eyes- expecting and hoping and empty of lies.

  • Olivia wrote about the word wade 1 year, 11 months ago

    not screaming from the inside. that why it’s unusual and new. simply wading through has never suited you.

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