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Daily Deviation
March 4, 2011
Short and whimsical, annabbelle by ~shinchai says a world in a few letters and lines.
Featured by nycterent
Suggested by lady-shirakawa
Literature Text
(two ays, two enns, two bees, two ells, to ease)
i met a girl who wanted two
of everything, to
reach out for your hand, so she could have another one, too.
i met a girl who wanted two
of everything, to
reach out for your hand, so she could have another one, too.
Literature
snowbones
holding my hands over the kettle
the skin on my fingertips peels back,
like dated wallpaper,
like flowers blooming.
they're burning from the inside out,
nails turning to varnish, turning to steam,
bones click-clacking their way out;
spreading like wildfire.
the whistling stops, and
blink
and my fingers are just fingers,
ink stained, bitten nails.
sunlight streams across the kitchen,
my fingers warm and
slightly damp, i trace patterns on
steamed-up windows.
Literature
on not knowing.
this road was ten miles long.
i traveled barefoot.
Literature
Sophie's Misfortune
"Will you run away with me?"
"Yes."
I hadn't expected him to say yes.
-
We were far from home before I had the courage to ask why.
"Why not?"
"Haven't you anything back there?"
"Yes. But I want something more."
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We mostly lived in an old trapper's hut in the woods. I swept it every day but I could never get the floor clean. There was blood on the bedroom wall. I think the trapper killed something here. I hope it was an animal.
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I meet an old woman among the trees one day. She is dressed in ragged brown with a brilliant gold locket around her neck. She says she can read my palm. I am skeptical. She takes it anyway.
"Your name is
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Wonderful work!