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May prompt 47.08
Like a fish plucked from the ocean
Tossed into a foreign stream
Always knew that I was different
Often fled into a dream
I ignored the raging currents
Right against the tide I swam
But I floated with the question
Who will love me as I am?
(from "Side Show")
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muse_playground prompt #04.08
04.08 "Stop making me think. I'm believing over here." - Harry Dresden, Wizard There were times after Sarah was returned to her own time and place, unable to get back to the Hogwarts she knew, that the outside world felt oppressive to her. It seemed as if its very existence questioned her experiences, held its reality up to the fantasy her ( Read more... ) -
May Prompts
41.08) I miss you, as I have for years, and retain a measure of respect for your temper, which someday may be all you have left of your independence. We begin to recognize each other, but appearances change and deceive us, like fog hides a reef ( Read more... ) -
MP Prompt 36.08 - Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
The flickering light from the telly was splintered and refracted through the bottle sitting by his elbow as he sipped single malt and fingered the bandage across the palm of his hand, wondering just how he’d come to this point in his life.
”Damn!” Sean cursed as the window glass slipped from his hands and shattered on the flagstones. An hour’s ( Read more... ) -
115. Sometimes in the night, she would squeeze her eyes shut and imagine how it might be to love him
Like Violet and I told Terry and Buddy, when things get to be too much, we just go into our minds. We have a whole world we've created there. Usually we share it ( Read more... ) -
Prompt Response 29.08
Do not tell
Do not confide
These longings can't be satisfied
This wave will wash out with the tide
These are feeling you've got to hide
(from "Side Show")That's how I felt for the longest time. That I had to hide what I was feeling. And it wasn't always so easy. Dan knows me better than anyone...but somehow I managed to keep so much from him. ( Read more... ) -
April Prompts
31.08) You can have it all; my empire of dirt ( Read more... ) -
26.08) Impossible Things
26.08) Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
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26.08 - Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things...
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Dad, if they built windows upside down, do you think people would grow taller?"
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Prompt: 27.08 - Forgiveness
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives - Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark
What…?
No, no, seriously, just… huhY’know, I had to read that about twenty times over to make sure I wasn’t having a blond moment and seeing it all wrong. Then, I sort of wished that I hadn’t, because it ( Read more... )