"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live." Haruki Murakami.I can't even begin to explain how true that quote is. At least as far as my own life goes. Social standing, friends, enemies, family members... they all flitter in and out of my life, sometimes as if they weren't even there in the first place, ( Read more... )

I can remember one thing in common with every time I was sick enough to stay home from school when I was little. I'd get set up on the couch with my pillow, my comforter, a box of tissues, and if I had an upset stomach a glass of ginger ale. Usually I'd drift in and out of sleep watching superhero cartoons and my mom would check in on me every so ( Read more... )

Who: Veronica Mars
What: Much belated Arrival/Introduction
When: Late Afternoon/Early Evening
Location: Town Square
Open or Closed: Open
Rating: PG-13 at most. PG more likely. If that changes I'll edit.Veronica tucked her hair behind her ear as she pushed the filing cabinet in her dad's office shut again. How had she gotten roped into organizing ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've all seen the headlines. It was hard to miss them once it went national... once People Magazine put what should be private pain on the cover because my murdered best friend happened to be the eldest child of a software tycoon. Every single one of the pieces went on to paint my dad as the bumbling local sheriff who went after the ( Read more... )

I'm sure it says a lot of extremely unflattering things about my personality, mindset, whatever you want to call it that the first thing I saw when I looked at this picture wasn't the heart shadow, or even the ring, but a few snippets of text on an otherwise obscured and blurry page. There it is, though. For all of Wallace's talk of me being a ( Read more... )

"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it." ~ E.M.Forster, A Room With A View.In a word, yes. I'd say nobody that went to Neptune High between 2003 and 2006 could really argue me on that, but that would pretty much guarantee that somebody would. Whether to be argumentative or simply because I'm the one that ( Read more... )

It might be shorter if I just talk about what I'm not afraid of. And the fact that I actually admitted that scares the hell out of me. It's been so long since I haven't been afraid in some major way - pushed to the back of my mind or not - that I've forgotten what it's like not to be. Sure, I talk tough... but am I really as invincible together, as ( Read more... )

If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about any one thing you wished ~ concerning yourself, your life, the future, or anything else ~ what would you want to know?Well, I wouldn't have guessed the last few years would have gone the way they did if I had tried, and if anyone would have told me I definitely wouldn't have believed, oh, ninety-nine ( Read more... )

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