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LJ Idol Week 29: Trials
-- And what do you call this? Atonement?
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-- Fuck it. To my health, then.
(He drank the culture like a shot)
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LJ Idol Week 28: Tenebris
“To be an astronaut of the void, leave the comfortable house, that imprisons you with reassurance…” --Derek Jarman.
London was born on a ship in the dark space between stars. His parents named him for a city they’d never seen.
That was tradition. His lessons were filled with such names, children called Moscow and Beijing, at least four Paris’ ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 27: Ash
There was a gas station and convenience store at the crossroads, the first proper building we’d seen for almost an hour, so Lily pulled us up to it and parked. Warm dirt settled around the van, a faint cloud outside my window. The sound of the engine cutting and me undoing my seatbelt.
“Want anything?”
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LJ Idol Week 25: Vision
My retinas were detaching. A side-effect of my medication, I think, or maybe it started before that, it’s hard to know. The virus and the treatment for the virus blended together. But anyway, my retinas: They were peeling away from my eyes. I wasn’t blind, but there were countless black spots and lines in my vision, drifting. If I tilted my head ( Read more... ) -
Last Chance Idol Week 2: Incision
“If he doesn’t get this surgery, he’ll die.”
He noted Dr. Jago’s raised voice. He’d never heard his mentor yell before. Strange that when it happened, it should be on his behalf.
Turning his head on the pillow, he gazed past his morphine drip and out the window. The elder’s reply sounded as if from a great distance:
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Last Chance Idol
*firm nod*
Anyway, I'd kick myself if I didn't try.