Daily Literature Deviations for August 20th, 2012

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Published: Aug 20, 2012

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Daily Lit Deviations for August 20^th, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: LadyofGaerdon}

if teen dreams were teen novelsthere was once a boy who had all the write words to say
with all those fancy allegories, metaphors and similes
and antonyms of synonyms, like rails and snares and storms
and organs and trains and drums and hurricanes and
hearts,
and she was only a girl with plain words, the kinds of things
that are only found in piles of papers and pens, books
she keeps where she sleeps,
that will only break when he leaves in the morning,
but she shares everything, like a boat shares a bard,
like a cigarette shares a lung, like a mouth shares other mouths,
like an artist shares her heart.
but there is a running in her heart:
not that type of beat she got when she was a little girl
and her favorite boy gives her a kiss on the cheek, but like when
he first shared his words with hers,
the kind of thing she gets only with naked skin,
and not like that kind of naked skin, naked, but before that
when she looks up and his eyes shine in that kind of way she thinks
might've happened when shakespeare was a teena

if teen dreams were teen novels by back-bones

_{A breathless tumult of thoughts and emotions,}

_{phrases and feelings, tumbling from the mind of}

_{the author irrevocably into your own.}

_{Featured by: SilverInkblot}

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Bad Poetry is Bad Poetry by mearoxie

_{How often do you see unnecessarily bolded,}

_{fancily formatted poems making the front page}

_{in place of well-written slices of meaning? Tired of it?}

_{This tongue-in-cheek bit of snark may just cheer you up.}

_{Suggested by: xlntwtch}

_{Featured by: betwixtthepages}

Little IngenueBorn with wanderlust
imprinted on her
beautiful star chart,
like the freckles that
dot her sun-soaked skin;
her heart's wild as the
red tangles, snarled
like brambles, coiled
like crowns, twisting through
her autumnal hair.
No one can convince
her, she will always
willfully believe
that Wonderland lies
beyond the next bend,
no matter what road
her capricious and
come-what-may nature
should choose to travel.
They say she is fey,
and she believes them.
She dreams of faeries
that take her away,
(it's the second star
to the right and straight
on till morning) to
fly on wings that Fate
forgot to give her.

Little Ingenue by TheLunaLily

_{From the suggester: In a world where 'wannabes' are frequent,}

_{this gem of a poem shows readers that, for most, both ingénues}

_{and their self-perceptions are rarely what they truly should be.</i>}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}

They Say I'm GuiltyOf the nearly eighty female prisoners that had answered my request, I had narrowed my choices down to two of them.  The first was a voluptuous, porcelain-skinned brunette that would make my brother drool in seconds.  The second was a golden-haired, frail little piece of work, and normally I would have dismissed her during the first round of eliminations, but something kept her there.  Maybe it was the way she stared at me with her venomous green eyes, but I couldn't be sure.  In any case, I had my two choices set before me, each isolated in separate cells on opposite ends of the jail so that I might observe them more personally.
I turned to the prison guard.  "What can you tell me about this one?"  I was starting with the brunette.
"Number 67," he practically spat.  "Don't believe a word she tells you.  She's as good a liar as they come."
I wondered at what sort of lies she had told the guard because clearl

They Say I'm Guilty by lalaith913

_{A chilling tale that makes the reader question}

_{the validity of truth and lies.}

_{Featured by xlntwtch}

ClaudiaI am a cat Claudia thinks. Cats don't care about rules. They come and go as they please, sleep and eat when they want - everybody accepts that that is the nature of cats. Why couldn't this stupid woman see that and let her alone? She's eight years old and stares with cool disdain at the social worker who says she's come to help her. But she's fine where she is. No one is going to make her leave.
The social worker stares back, a mix of pity and exasperation in her gaze. She's fairly new at this and this is the worst case of neglect she's ever seen. The child is filthy. It is hard to distinguish between her brown skin and what she judges to be at least a month's worth of accumulated grime. Her nails are overlong with what looks to be dried blood embedded beneath. Her black hair is matted and probably infested with God only knows what. She'd been trying to coax the child into coming with her for nearly a half an hour but the little girl remained crouched on a chair that had seen better da

Claudia by leyghan

_{This fine flash fiction has a few hidden layers,}

_{each evoking either a smile or a tear.}

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TheLunaLily

Aug 21, 2012

Thank you immensely for featuring "Little Ingenue".

Daily Literature Deviations for August 20th, 2012

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Daily Lit Deviations for August 20^th, 2012

Poetry

Prose

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Will's Final Words

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Daily Literature Deviations for August 20th, 2012

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Daily Lit Deviations for August 20th , 2012

Poetry

Prose

Okay, here goes...

Will's Final Words

New Information...

Everyone, please hold on...

Daily Lit Deviations for August 20^th, 2012