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Family Defined by tubercularskies, literature

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Family Defined

I have never understood the meaning of the word "family." Yes, I know that the actually definition of the word is as basic as a kindergarteners education, but what does it mean? What does it really mean? The dictionary reads back to me, a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. That isn't me. Not anymore. Not since I turned 16 and I realized every nervous breakdown I was having was linked to my mother. It isn't me at 16 when I'm guilted into moving on with my life and trying to make something of my life, which included promoting my own mental health. It wasn't me at 16 when I realized that if I didn't get

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Odd Behaviors by tubercularskies, literature

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Odd Behaviors

An old 1980s Chevy sits in the yard of his house. He’ll come and he’ll go, but only at night when even the moon no longer illuminates his movements. Sometimes, he’ll burn things at this time. Everything will be dark and dead silent until the same spot of his yard lights up. It was 3:30 in the morning. I could swear that I saw a crib surrounded by flames, but there’s only one problem. He has no children. He has no wife. He doesn’t even have a dog. By morning, he won’t have a crib either. He’s the only one on the block that doesn’t wave. He’ll look at you, but he won’t ev

Color at First Sight by tubercularskies, literature

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Color at First Sight

Jane didn't understand. She took a deep breath, her pen clicking slowly in a repetitive monotonous rhythm while she stared down at the empty paper. The lines mocked her. The blankness of it made her eyes water and the moisture made her eyes sting. Staring at this piece of paper literally caused her pain. She had to put something on it. The spiral notebook wouldn't win this time. Her pen touched the paper and she began to color in black ink on the white paper. Along the gray spiral, she began to link each hole with a thick line of black. It less white. Less white was good. The story that her pen refused to write and her hand refused

We Will Be Found by Shannon S by tubercularskies, literature

Like Gravel by Shannon S by tubercularskies, literature

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Like Gravel by Shannon S

I woke up this mornin’, with a hangover and the taste of ash coating my tongue. The floor’s split, the bed’s so old it moans. Single shot glass of bourbon. The tipped bottle dripped through a crack in the floor. Figures. Shkht, shkht, shkht Damn lighter never worked. Last night, I drank my past listening to smokehouse Waits. Now, I burn my future in Lucky Strikes.

The End by Shannon S by tubercularskies, literature

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The End by Shannon S

How does one start a story that has no beginning? The end, the middle, the dénouement? Fancy words sit on a piece of paper so perfectly, or at least they used to. Coffee has turned the paper brown, and tears have pulled the letters off the paper down through to the worn table. It left a little bit of history behind. One day, someone will sit at the same table and read aloud the letters, “What if you could just…?” They will sit and wonder what that meant, but never find out. It will remain on their mind, but for only a fraction of the time it has remained on the writers. So, where does the story with no beginning ess

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Color at First Sight by tubercularskies, literature

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We Will Be Found by Shannon S by tubercularskies, literature

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Like Gravel by Shannon S

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We have a daughter called poetry— quiet with little fuss— looking up & molding us as god. Her small verbs span indifferent cities, aloof mountain ranges, & the hours of blank faced clocks between sunrises. She knows there are worse things than dark— the black waters of the mind are scarier. We have created her from love, pressed & dried bouquets & willow sticks— things only we could make a life from. One day we'll wake up as different people but the magic of a shared procreation will keep us tied— wanting to see each other's newly patchworked faces. We have a daughter called poetry—

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What My Mind Sounds Like

the fuzzy half-static of a tuning radio an amplified feedback full of repetitious speeches in torqued distortion words on a loop until its clawing at hair, ripping out at the occipital bone a flood of neuroses & fears flooding & shifting like sand in your neck choking on wind forced thru the back of your throat the click of a lighter with the flame blowing out & a snort of mucus accompaniment metal lurching free & ringing against its partner, a flick in the air the singe & eventual flash crackle of skin visitor’s passes peeled off their backing & the quiet scrape off clothing an hour later every song that puts a hole thru you

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Artist // Student // Literature

Nov 29
United States
Deviant for 9 years
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Junky, Silmarillion, All Quiet on the Western Front,

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T.S. Elliot, Walt Whitman, Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Will Burroughs, Tolkien, Irvine Welsh, Erich Maria Remarque

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Jul 16, 2015

Italy and Other Stuff

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So, I've never done a journal before on here...and I don't really do them at all even irl.  I try to, but it never works out, so we'll see how this goes. I guess I'll start off with the most notable thing that's happened to me in the past few months (hackcough or life coughhack).  I went to Italy.  It was for school and I was a temporary resident there for a month while reading Dante's Divine Comedy.  It was hard reading the whole thing while enjoying what Italy had to offer.  I stayed in Florence on Corso Tintori for most of the month.  The first three weekends we had the chance to go to different places.  The first weekend I went to Venice

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Hey there~! C:

How's life? haha