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February 8, 2014
Suggester says, "I have chosen this piece in particular because I think it should be accessible to everyone without knowledge of the fandom. More than that, it really affected me. It portrays the raw emotions of the narrator, who has already had to grieve the loss of their love, and now faces a worse loss, a betrayal and negation of that 'love.'"
Puppet on a String by wotan345
Featured by SingingFlames
Suggested by ErinM31
Literature
Strawberries in the Winter
My momma once said that it was impossible-
That trying to grow strawberries
In a room that murdered light
Was like telling a girl to live without love
Or demanding a fish to breathe midair.
Still, a week later
A pot of dirt found its home
On a desk in that room,
Daring to flirt with the color green.
Everyday a lamp was hit,
Life support was turned on,
And Thoreau was born to fight.
I told myself,
No more would the fat guy need surgery
Just to blend into an ocean of hypocrites
That would tide in and out of his “in security”.
No more would the nerd girl
Need tights that cut her once living legs
Because the boy she’s been
Literature
Faeriefire
We all hid when the faeries dueled.
You and I were in the closet, wishing to each other half-secretly among the motes that the duels could be rare as dragons, at least. Instead they were only rare as quarter-moons.
Ground liquifies, sometimes, during a duel. The stars brighten and fall faster, leaving holes in the ground and setting forests alight. The sun hides in a bird’s nest, they say.
We did not see when the damage was done. We were accustomed to avoiding to know even the names of those who fought. Our eyes were far from windows.
But duels always ended the day after they began, and we stepped
Literature
Oh Child
your bones are small,
but strong
like your heart,
they've never been broken
oh child,
stay away from the world
oh child,
i hope you never
realize
that dreams only
last for the night
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Pretty powerful stuff. If I were someone who'd lied to you right now, I'd probably sleep with one eye open...