[Prose] Home II

Title: Home II Notes: I know I'm on hiatus. I felt inspired today, and this is probably the last thing I'll post before next year. Home. Home is a word a lot of us use but I’m sure few of us actually understand. Home isn’t where you live. Home isn’t where you are. Home isn’t where you leave your things. Home is where you wish you were. Home is where you feel like you belong. Home is ...

047 ;; In the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman

title: In the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman. summary: Neither of them really knew the date but by the look of the snow, and the feel of the temperatures lately, it was nearly Christmas. word count: 1374. disclaimer: This is all my property. Do not take. author's note: Written for memories_child for the fourth challenge over at inrevelations . In the Meadow We ...

prompt: starting over

A doff of my hat to Memento . Personal challenge for BF January: write in or prominently include second person narration for all prompt responses. So far: 1/1. Someone with anterograde amnesia would start over very quickly. Wordcount: 760. What am I doing? Okay, there's a chopping board out, with some grated tomatoes. I'm holding an onion in one hand, a knife in the other. There's ...

Couple of Strangers

Theme: 31_days 2010-01-02 "constantly round in this circle" Characters: A couple, mainly Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 285 Summary: "They may as well be strangers lying in the same bed, never meeting each other, day after day." In the morning, she wakes up. She turns. He is still fast asleep in his bed. She sighs, picks up her bag and hurries out the door to catch the early ...

Tentatively Untitled

Theme: 31_days 2010-01-01 "he whose body is crazy and feeble" Characters: An old man in a wheelchair, his grandson (and a ghost) Rating: NC-16 for disturbing psychology Word Count: 340 Summary: A scene (which might be expanded in future). An old man still has dangerous tricks up his sleeve. Author's Note: This may seem far-fetched because I haven't actually expanded on the ...

Good People

In our lives, we all meet good people. We recognize them almost instantly, remain with them for a time, and then leave them. They become the yardstick we measure ourselves and all whom we meet against. They are not perfect because they are, after all, people, but all their faults are essentially born from goodness. And we love them for that; love them intensely and want to walk beside them ...

Untitled Drabble

I thought I’d find you somewhere today, reborn like a bird in a nest. And if you were, I’d hold you in my cupped palms and you might sing to me until you were ready to fly. But just because one decade, one year, one month, one day, one hour, one minute, one second has passed, it does not mean that the old you has passed too. All change in nature is comparatively gradual; it is only God who can ...

CHARACTERS: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson RATING: Possibly NC-17 There are, Watson tells himself, some benefits to his being incapacitated. While it becomes quite irritating after a few days of not being able to walk more than ten meters out of his room, he does enjoy the precious free time that came to him as a result of the cast binding his right leg. The books that he collected but ...

poem: trust

trust trust self to say when speak the word & know awake the star soft night make time a slow sacred thing ask an open question like, are we (there) yet? (home) (free) smile, heart: you & I have a universe! we were not broken. - adp, 31 December 2009 / revised approx. 3:20pm [original magnetic post here ]

(magnetic) poem: trust

I made a poem just now online with magnetic poetry. I have actual kits here on the desk right beside me, but I felt like trying the online version first instead. (???) - adp, 31 December 2009, approx. 3am or so & hey, you can play with the magnetic poetry too, if you like!