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Moving on
So. Le livejournal has treated me well for these past--what? four years? Holy god, what have I done--but. But. But it's not the format I'm looking for anymore. It's a little too..something and not enough something else.
So I've moved over to the much more grown-up wordpress.
You can find me at callioscopic.wordpress.com from here on out.
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Your eyes are too dark
12.17.09Your eyes are too dark to ( Read more... ) -
Guitars and Streetcorners
2008She sees him and she’s in love, falling so fast it hurts. He’s perfect, a beautiful broken angel, and damn if she won’t take those wings and set them in a cast. He won’t be able to fly from her, but at least she can make the pain stop. He hangs his head, strumming listlessly at a guitar, and there’s a spattering of coins at his feet, but they’ ( Read more... ) -
Hips and a Bassline
2009She stays up too late at night and keeps her hair too short and her words too long, her music too loud and her voice too soft and her collarbone too sharp and she’s beautiful and I love her ( Read more... ) -
Of a Gentleman Poet
10.22.09You dream of being one of those dead poets ( Read more... ) -
Infinitive
10.7.09To drink from your lips ( Read more... ) -
September Waltz
9.27.09It's midnight, again ( Read more... ) -
Fucking Gypsies
Written for Kelsey ( Read more... ) -
Sing, Muse
Hm. Here are the pieces of a story I keep trying to write. Sometimes they overlap with other stories; sometimes they become something else entirely. As a writer, the idea of a muse is interesting--even more interesting from the muse's point of view. Rather than a heavenly being to bestow inspiration on the impoverished artist, what if, instead, ( Read more... ) -
Mirame
When I'm sitting down to write with nothing much in mind for where I want it go, the first words on the paper are almost always some variation on "He looks at her and". There are dozens of them--"He looks at her and his heart stops"; "She looks at him and it hurts". It's a helpful trick--stops me from sitting there spending time painting a scene ( Read more... )