Archive for April, 2008
Things She Taught Me
I’ve been thinking about what comes next. About how the story unravelled. I’ve been thinking about what details to include in the re-telling, trying to establish what is merely descriptive and what is essential to the plot. I haven’t decided yet. Perhaps the telling is harder than I thought it would be.
By the time I [...]
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Tags: family, life, personal
Letter 4, I think.
Dear Nablopomo,
April Nablopomo + Happy Misfit = Fail
I’ve realised that not much has changed since high school. I cannot write (or do anything for that matter) when someone says that I have to. This is the case even when I am the one saying the oh-so-paralysing ‘you have to’s’. It’s a sad state of affairs [...]
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Tags: nablopomo, random
Things She Told Me
I have to tell this story, though I don’t quite know how. It begins decades before I took my first breath. It is not really mine to tell. And yet it is. You see, I inadvertently became it’s keeper, and sometimes, I rather think that now it is keeping me. I don’t like carrying this [...]
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Tags: life, personal, random, stories
Between Friends
Me: I miss you.
Him: It’s like Swayze and Gray, Travolta and Olivia, Bea Smith and Lizzie Birdsworth.
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There’s an idea rising, a quiet panic swelling. It’s old and familiar. Comfortably worn. It’s too loud to be sitting here, grimace in hand. I’m tired, and a little blinded, thirsty. I don’t like standing timid. I’d rather kneel and suck. There’s a shushed goodbye in every silence, too much hesitation to swallow. I’m side [...]
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Tags: fuck it all, love, random
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