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photicaphotic - - "Chemical dependency. Two words meant to describe her entire life; tragedy and promises and lazy Sunday afternoons compressed down into seven syllables and nonchalant judgment. Excuses not to pick up her calls or acknowledge her on the street. Eyes that used to meet hers now wandering to the shoelaces dragging on the pavement or the changing traffic lights. Unbearable silence. The pristine divination of condemnation hung like a shawl about her shoulders, keeping her warm while it snaked ever-tighter, slowly cutting off circulation and oxygen; a slow-motion suicide she held close to her chest. Always an option, always the safety. The haunting in her bones of a life unloved and lived uncomfortably like a soul too big for its body, wedged into the crooks of her elbows and the dips between her fingers. Brought down by a minuscule fracture in her structure; held beneath the unrelenting press of human weakness and emotional avoidance. A blemish that turns the diamond […] "View -
talia - - "that’s surrealism for you: One, two, three, four, those hopscotch shoe tripping up and down the foreseeable path, caught between rows of numbers like a sick snake-patterned design. They are Oreos and pebbles fighting a fierce two and a double-timing three. They battle their way up only to turn and turn again, those legless shoes. They battle their way down, downstream, down river, down the elements come falling. They can’t stop so they burn through the leather of the thick baby souls and hop and skip and jump. It isn’t fun it’s only leather and stones and the pavement which is dusty from chalk ruins. They were left there by the kids, who are gone. The chalk, which is gone, rained away but there are chalk ruins, their dust like bile in kids’ mouths and shoes’ mouths. Whether the shoes want to or not, their invisible body doesn’t matter, because they hop stone over stone, square over square. It’s like dancing, except painful. And it’s not dancing, it’s only hopscotch. […] "View -
alexcornell - - "I love how on this site, I’ll start to write about one word, and then all of a sudden I’ll become engulfed in a stream of different thoughts that branch from that one […] "View -
