i return, dusty, tattered, worn and weary but sleep seems far-off, a distant possibility.. images float in a brightly coloured stream- my brother stands there in the sun cracking bullwhip in his hand echoing off the brittle trees flaming stars (…)

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i loathe inept phlebotomists who bruise my tender veins.

Spinning down a thin gray thread of highway, our tiny rental-pod rocking with the force of a rhythmic, pounding rain careening on its inexorable trajectory into the past- time running backwards.. Spindly black cypress stumps huddle together in the dead (…)

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well, my lovely little creatures, in a few scant hours i will be hurtling in a rental car down I-10 towards texas, family, and bittersweet memories aplenty.. my ancestral birth-place, that sweet old town.. shaky nerves and muddled mind, adrenaline (…)

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Sorrowful stories I hear all that’s shown His posturish shiver on his things And she’s always known Things from the forest die here But I don’t Dead forest things are offered here But I’m not Vassals live lies Their faith (…)

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Snails, I have read, are equipped with a curious organ, known as a gypsobellum, or love-dart with which they apparently excite each other…

i think i am slowly recovering my sense of sanity.. barricaded myself in the bathroom for an extended period and hid underwater in the clawfoot bath. to be alone, in silence.. i feel like i’ve been in a horrible car (…)

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i woke up in cold sweats, head pounding for many mornings in a row.. i think today is the third day.. but today i’m going to wash it off, wish it off… change it- tabula rasa- purify. my dream: i (…)

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Which Edward Gorey Book Are You? brought to you by Quizilla “the next morning, she was wakened in a novel fashion by lady celia in time for elevenses…”

today was the most hideous, horrible, awful, lamentable, and generally poop-tastic day i’ve had in a looooong time. last night i went to bed with a splitting headache. i woke with a splitting headache. my cat was sitting on my (…)

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