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Roma commented on the post, lantern 1 year, 2 months ago
The glass seemed too fragile to hold the light in: a camping lantern, designed for rough handling and hard weather, gave off the brightest glow in the interminable darkness and defied its own construction.
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Roma commented on the post, orbit 1 year, 3 months ago
Orbiting unceasingly around the Sun, Earth wondered what it might feel like to break away. Saturn sounded nice this time of year.
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Roma wrote about the word conceal 1 year, 4 months ago
Desperately smudging the sponge across her face, she tried to layer enough foundation across her forehead to conceal the premature wrinkles she perceived to be overtaking her young face, not realizing that her pulling and tugging and pinching at the skin would be the root cause of real wrinkles later in her life.
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Roma wrote about the word trunk 1 year, 4 months ago
One trunk. One whole lifetime, twenty-five years of possessions and memories, six square feet of space — the numbers didn’t add up.
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Roma wrote about the word dusk 1 year, 5 months ago
From dawn till dusk, the world functions a certain way. After nightfall, the tables turn and all expectations are reversed: no longer do your petty daytime arguments hold weight in the infinite blackness of a street without lamps to light the way.
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Roma wrote about the word brick 1 year, 9 months ago
Brick used to be a name, or at least a popular nickname, for a certain high school archetype: the large blond jock, stronger than he was smart, inexplicably attractive to girls who should have known better — but no more. Is it that we have no patience for the Bricks of the world now, or [...]
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Roma wrote about the word canvas 1 year, 9 months ago
Unable to keep anything in her life plain, she took the canvas of the tent for its artistic purpose. Staring upwards, the two gazed at the sky: not the natural light of the stars from above, but her elaborately painted conception of them, shining down in quite a different way.
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Roma wrote about the word bulb 1 year, 9 months ago
Bulbs, both light and tulip, represent possibility — the one of flowering growth, the other, metaphorically, of an idea. Brilliance can apply to both, referring either to remarkability either in hue or significance.
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Roma wrote about the word amuse 1 year, 9 months ago
Amuse. A muse. The muse of amusement? An amusing muse. Amusing musings. A musing muse. An amusing muse musing in an amusement park.
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Roma wrote about the word ticket 1 year, 10 months ago
“She’s got a ticket to ride” — who’s got a ticket? to ride what? going where? These are my questions, Messrs. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, & Starr.
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Roma wrote about the word violent 1 year, 10 months ago
Violent is a red word, but violet is a violet one — appropriate, no? Funny how a single letter can make such a difference, and no two things are more different than flowers and murder.
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Roma wrote about the word assisted 1 year, 10 months ago
“Assisted living” was nothing more than a polite metaphor for Death’s waiting room. She mused idly on the French lessons of her youth, remembering the curious incongruity between the meaning on the page and the meaning in her mind: “assister,” contrary to the assumptions of her native-tongued mentality, was more likely to connote attendance than [...]
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