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Daily Literature Deviations for May 19th, 2013

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Daily Lit Deviations for May 19th, 2013


We are proud to feature today's Daily Literature Deviations!
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Please comment and :+fav: the features and congratulate the artists!


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Poetry


Featured by =LadyofGaerdon
A Bumblebee Among The PoemsA pale hand's reach
for long forgotten poets
unearths
dust soaked wings
sewn
on a stripped jacket.

Snown by ashen rays,
they soar towards
their birthplace.

Even my lantern
does not uncloud
the ash they long for.

They are looking
for their flower.
Not the sun.
A Bumblebee Among The Poems by ~Pr0metheusUnb0und

A seemingly ordinary occurrence is
made extraordinary through the words
of ~Pr0metheusUnb0und, who asks:
"Can they survive that long in the darkness,
surrounded by nothing but words?"


Featured by =LadyofGaerdon
Ianthe speaksAccept the pain and suffering as part of the forging of your new self. Weak now as molten metal – treated with fire, treated with icy cold water – to become strong and hard. Broken and reforged in the white blaze.

Crawled into the burrow you'd dug for me – the one we'd shared – couldn't heal with your elbow poking my chin. Need to see the back of you, to redefine the space with my own body, to find new names for silence and fear. Emerge above…

What we feel as ash in our mouths is but dust of years stirred accidentally in the confusion of goodbyes. The closing door disturbed the pile of days – the flurry of nights. Curled under them I felt w
Ianthe speaks by ~RecordingAngel

I think many of us feel this way from
time to time, or when we slow down
long enough to allow ourselves to
feel, to recognize "the rut of routine
and comfort"and come face to face
with the "hydra of endless identical days".
This malady of modern existence is
explored beautifully by ~RecordingAngel.



Prose


Featured by =LadyofGaerdon
Offering
Dax bent her head over the tiny dancing flames in her palm, trying to absorb every lick of heat she possibly could. The tongues of fire were small and weak, flickering on the edge of extinction, but she kept them alive through the sheer power of her will.

A particularly cold gust of wind caught her by surprise, breaking her concentration. With a hiss, the flames went out.

“No!” Dax half-shouted, half-groaned. She snapped her fingers, but they didn’t spark. She tried again, desperate for some warmth, but it was hopeless. Between her frustration and the cold, it just wasn’t going to happen.

She ran a hand through her
Offering by =Ambiguous-Catharsis

Tasked with creating a situation
to explain the strange predicament
of the subjects in the inspiring image,
the author spins a relevant tale, wholly
her own, and deeply engaging.


Featured by `thetaoofchaos
ChristophorusIt was one of those soirées where the smell of powder and pomades gave the baron Auerthal a perennial runny nose. The Burgundy wine and the nakedness of the female party made the men daring in their talk, the kind of daring that the baron only managed not to tiptoe off from thanks to his practice in rallying troops under fire.

«So, Monsieur le Baron used to serve in the Prince de Liechtenstein’s État-Major, correct? An exquisite gentleman. But tell me, please, you must have known the other aides de camp quite well – is it true that Monsieur Cantelmi had gotten a hole blown down there at Piacenza?».

«Pardonnez-moi?».

«A hole. Li
Christophorus by ~PlayinTheDead

Flush with wonderful details and brimming with
energetic dialog, this period piece wows the reader
with polished and meaningful storytelling.


Suggested by: *SCFrankles
Featured by: =SilverInkblot
Goodnight Enigmatic SongShe was the song you hear and, at first blush, don't like. 
Well, you don't know how you feel about it so you keep listening in an attempt to discover how exactly you feel and then you reach the end of the song and you realize, you don't like it; you love it. 
That was Grace.
She was my coworker and she was my friend.
We carpooled together, I drove and she slept most of the way.
"Don't get much sleep at night, do you?" I asked her, catching those drooping lids mid-descent.
"Insomnia, love."
She looked out the window streaked with rain; it spoke in percussive touches filling the car with quiet overcast conversation.
I felt the warmth of her smile in the corner of my eye. The blur of her hand reached at the window to feel the cold of the droplets.
"When I was a girl, I used to race these. I thought it was funny the fat ones always won," she giggled and I imagined her as a little girl in the passenger seat then, legs too short to reach so kicking, and hair messed in the bac
Goodnight Enigmatic Song by *0hgravity

Suggester: "The ordinary made extraordinary. A
story of friendship and lost love."





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Prepared by: `thetaoofchaos
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~emster85 Jan 21, 2013  Student General Artist
Thank you so much for the feature!! I really really appreciate it!
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~WhisperedInsanity Jan 16, 2013  Student Writer
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I think I might die of joy. <3333
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~C-y-n-d-i Jan 2, 2013
:rose: Thank you :)
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=Reiyaa Dec 20, 2012  Hobbyist Writer

This is such a cool thing to do for us Writers.
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~chapaV Nov 20, 2012  Professional Writer
Hey there, thank you very much for the feature!
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