| Notes to the Lilyflower (Or, Why Her World is Round) |
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(10:09pm) April 22nd, 2008
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I.
It began two hundred thousand years ago (six months ago)
why should it end? Or rather,
how should it. There are those who can break another and sleep at night. I
remember the Queen and the Other, the world
talked behind their backs, but they're still alive.
And me?
II.
Ten Points for the best yet, perfezione as you would put it, almost impossible, the Sun is the Center of the Solar System, an ideallic sphere, paradise in your way, perhaps? God-loves-you, Vitruvius had it right: nothing to add, nothing lacking, a beauty unfathomable, why that's quite ugly isn't it.
III.
You can walk for the earth is flat, and drop your fingers to be eaten by the men on the way.
IV.
"Oh, I haven't seen you in a while!"
"Yes, but have you heard about what happened to her?"
V.
There is an unstoppable media frenzy the moment she reaches the peak of the world. Helicopters dance overhead as cameras focus on an image that will not affect the future of the planet whatsoever. Her determined expression as she lifts her flag is featured in more than a million TV screens in the world, taken in by billions of eyes and hands and teeth. She beams, waves her hand fleetingly, and smiles for the cameras.
And then she slips.
That is what should happen to those who climb high, but in the real world honey, there will be a million hands to break her fall, and who are you to judge them? And they never slip, my dearest, they never stumble, they never fall, they never, love. You're just another button in the elevator to the peak of the world; you'll take her to the top, but she'll be the only one who gets there.
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| Desaparecidos |
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(10:09pm) March 26th, 2008
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Desaparecidos
Author's Notes: Politically-laden. Written for my Nnara-Youth CWTS class. Dedicated to all the internal refugees from Southern Tagalog.
( I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be super. )
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| Nervosa |
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(10:27pm) March 21st, 2008
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Nervosa
So he told me, look man, you gotta eat. You’re practically skin and bones. Your collarbone is seemingly carved with perfection, elbows and knees ripping the threads that hold your flesh together, and your eyes are round, your cheeks convex. You gotta eat.
So I go down on my knees and eat. I eat the stench of his girlfriend, the evidence of warmth and suffocation. I eat all his sons and daughters, their wide smiles and playful laughter, and his hands wander to the curves of my neck and tighten. I drink his excess wine, eat his sun-brightened dreams of a humble home, lush, green lawns and white picket fences. I swallow his future, hum a hungry tune as bits of his existence slide down my throat and settle on my once-empty stomach. He’s just standing there against the wall, and I’m eating him. I eat him while he’s breathing. I eat him while he is alive.
I eat him while he dies. I have never felt so full.
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| [xxxholic] The Doumeki Shizuka Files |
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(1:35am) March 18th, 2008
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Title:The Doumeki Shizuka Files, or What Really Happened in the Music Room (as Recorded, Researched and Compiled by Investigative Underground Journalist Kumo Maki)
Author: Mushroom
Author's Notes: Inspired by episode #49 of the anime Card Captor Sakura, which is entitled Sakura and the Dangerous Piano. Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) star_flare for the beta-read! The style is highly experimental, so nit-picks are greatly appreciated.
Kumo Maki’s notes: Hi, all. Here are a few excerpts of my interviews of certain individuals who have directly or indirectly communicated with Doumeki Shizuka of class III-A.
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| Heroes, Nathan/Peter |
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(4:55pm) January 2nd, 2008
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Title: Pictures
Pairing: Nathan/Peter
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Prompt requested by conflictx. Set at the start of season 2.
( Nathan remembers. )
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| Seven Ways to Live Again |
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(11:41pm) December 11th, 2007
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Title: Seven Ways to Live Again
Author: Mushroom
Rating: R
Summary: Learn how to piece yourself together, in seven easy steps!
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