Daily Lit Deviations for September ^13th, 2011

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Poetry

_{Featured by Maudlin-Mandolin}
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"mirror malice" by RhetoricallySpeaking

<sub>A shocking piece that strikes to
the core and perhaps makes some of us
look back on similar times, feelings,
and thoughts.

Featured by spoems</sub>
breaddoctors pure as angels, white as chefs
peruse menus on clipboards,
their exhaustion mouthed in metric
from a graveyard shift cuisine
measuring the flour, cutting off the surplus,
adhering to rules, to rules, to rules-
hospital smocks' mocking exposure
to cold air and latex
the way fatigue sets in when
bilious walls deaden,
bringing on the drone of
fluorescent blood-suckers
as a hypo plunges deep into
a fat vein, pliant and compliant,
to siphon me through the
emptiness outside the box-
a distant voice is counting backwards...
I smell bread baking
bread by Jade-Pandora

_{The bold descriptors in this revealing
poem are like hot coals burning the experience
into the reader. It uses a quirky, transportive
language that digs into the veins and brings
up atmosphere like blood from a fresh wound,
offering up what most might believe to be typical
circumstance and molding it to seem alien and
traumatic - closer to its actuality.}

Prose

_{Suggested by maidenofwar
Featured by bowie-loon123}
Date A Girl Who WritesDate a girl who will argue with you over which brand of pen is better. Who needs more RAM on her computer because of Word files, not game files. Who has two bookcases – one for filled notebooks and one for other author's works.
Find a girl who writes. You know it's her because she'll always have a pen and a notebook with her. Occasionally a tape recorder. She's the one who would have as much fun at home on a Saturday night with her computer as she would out at a party.
You see the weird girl sitting on a park bench looking engrossed in watching the people that walk? That's the writer. They watch people, how they act, they discover how people work. All for research. For their next big novel.
She's the girl hunched over a laptop at the coffee shop, or a notepad. Her fingers are moving so fast they're only a blur to you. Her previously fresh-cooked muffin is now cold. Her tea has simmered down to a lukewarm. Sit down. She won't notice you for a moment, she's lost in a different world
Date A Girl Who Writes by Chantal9

<sub>The suggester stated the following:
"I think it [the piece] refers
to the greatest truth of all, which is
whichever medium you work in, the reality
you see through your heart and mind is just
as real to you as that which others see
through their eyes. "

Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>
We are the Word ThievesWe writers are criminals.
But we are the best kind of criminals.
We steal words.
We'll never be punished, for we are always needed. Whether through the speech of ever deceitful humans, or through the mute tongues of print and screen, we will always be there, working our many-pronged magic. Our swords are constantly out, skewering towards the alphabet with such regularity that the words stand proud, only to bow to our will, bleeding emotion to our clients.
For we are the Word Thieves, and the words are our quarry.
Even if the censors come and try to clamp us down, we'll disappear into the shadows and reveal our true beauty. It is here we show how we don't need a wave from a wand or a wish from the human mind to transform into our heart's desires, when all the answers can be written in a twist of a pen.
And when we transform, we rule Heaven and Earth.
We are the pirates that traverse the word-filled seas, setting sail with the wind and waves. Through storm and sun, our sail is splashed w

We Are the Word Thieves by julietcaesar

_{Writing about writing has always felt
rather meta to me and this piece bumps it
up to eleven. It’s an inspiring read for any
writer as julietcaesar journeys from
the high seas to the savannah, hunting the
words to build stories.}

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