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How do you respond to pressure?Neither of them were in a good mood today. She had all her work spread out in front of her, up on the tapestry loom, piles of bright colors by the wheel, the globe sat by the brick of clay, everything was set up and she sat curled up on her stool and glared balefully at all of it. As though it would spontaneously ( Read more... ) -
#356 Worst Compliment Ever
"... really very nice."
She forced a smile that was more like peeling her lips back from her teeth. Bowed her head in a nod of polite hostility and moved on.
Nice? Really?It was the death knell of social compliments. It meant she had failed. She was not gorgeous or witty or charming or in any way outstanding. There was nothing that the older ( Read more... ) -
Theatrical Muse #331 Talk about something you used to love
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Theatrical Muse #330. I.O.U
It started when she was in high school. When her father had just gotten a more lucrative job and she'd changed schools again, and she had to start a new school all over again. In her sophomore year, when everyone's places had been hammered out and clawed to and fought for the previous year. She was an unknown. They didn't know what to do with her ( Read more... ) -
Theatrical Muse #329 - Get Out
She was sitting over her desk when he came in. Not all the way, but he stood in the doorway and leaned against the door frame and watched her at work on her correspondence. That was what she called it. Her fingers tapped on the keyboard, creating an indistinguishable rattle of noise.
"Aren't you even going to talk to me?"
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Theatrical Muse #328 Revolution
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It started so long ago that she can barely remember the beginning. There was a dream, and dancing, and the kind of lascivious, lethargic peace that comes with being stretched out in the middle of a sunbeam. And yet, he remembers every detail and brings them up when she least expects ( Read more... ) -
Theatrical Muse #323 Right and Wrong
Almost a year into the zombie apocalypse it wasn't so much a zombie apocalypse and more just of an apocalypse in general ( Read more... ) -
Theatrical Muse #322 Chinese Zodiac
Any minute now, she would stop laughing ( Read more... )