December 2011
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sleepbutneverrest replied to your post: dearskylark replied to your post: I started my new…
I wanna read that!
Thank you! :D I’ll probably independently publish when I’m finished, so you can get it then. I’ve written several novels and everyone keeps pestering me to indie publish, so I’ll get around to it one of these days!
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dearskylark replied to your post: I started my new novel two days ago…
what’s your book about??
It takes place in a future dystopian society where there is no middle class. Music, art, and classic literature has been outlawed. The upper class is mostly ignorant of any problems and the lower class is constantly fed new distractions to keep them down. There are two rebellions, one peaceful...
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I started my new novel two days ago...
I already have about twenty pages.
Anyway that’s why I haven’t been here much…
I’ll post some quotes later!
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With you, I can see the future curling like smoke...
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For my 365
I decided I will do a micro-fiction a day. That means six words to a story. Can’t wait!
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sometimes i think the goal of the commercial world is to overwhelm the viewer so aggressively and completely that we are consumed without even getting out of bed in the morning, swept away without thinking until we are swallowed in debt and loneliness and layers of makeup and designer clothing and we can only think, what happened? i didn’t want this… but we keep telling ourselves if we...
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 6/16
When I was born I was a conjoined twin. My mother had to choose which one of us would get to live. I don’t know why she chose me. I got all the organs, the brain, the heart, and the blood to survive. I just know that everything I do, I feel the burden of my other half, the heaviness of this person who I simultaneously killed and spared the world, both without my choosing. Maybe that’s why I took...
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Thinking of doing a 365 this year for drawing.
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 5/16
I was eight and he was nine and my parakeet, Jimmy, died, and I didn’t know what to do because my parents weren’t home, and I called him on the phone and cried, and he rode all the way across town on his blue bike with the skinny flat tires, and we buried the bird in the backyard under the huckleberry bush, and he dug the little grave with a trowel and we wrapped Jimmy in toilet paper and put him...
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 4/16
Old Marlene wore a kettle on her head. She had it custom made by the twin potters in town so that it fit to her skull and she carried it around, a porcelain hat. That way when she went to see polite company she always had a kettle. Even people who didn’t welcome her past the front door had to let her in because she had her gnarled toes in the door and had a cup of tea ready.
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 3/16
Little Boy and Little Cat live in my dresser. I caught Little Cat in a Smucker’s Jam jar once and Little Boy was so heartbroken and angry he poked my hands with a sewing needle. It didn’t bleed but it hurt; and I took Little Cat out of the jar and gave it back to him. Now they live somewhere in my dresser and we don’t bother each other, but at night sometimes I can hear Little Boy reading stories...
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 2/16
She lifts her head, it’s a 12˚ angle and her glasses slide down her nose. Jesus, she’s gorgeous. I don’t believe in God but if I did and I could ask him for something I would ask for her. I would ask for her and my dead cat back and for my brain to be fixed so I could talk to people.
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Sixteen Beginnings And No End | 1/16
I wake up facedown on the lawn. The soft side of the moon is calling my polymer soul, and if I can just reach out a hand to it, it will oblige me, but I realize I can’t. About the same time as this realization comes (or perhaps it is millennia later) I vomit quietly into the grass and curl onto my side, feeling the universe crushing my ribs and what’s inside them.
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