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Daily Lit Deviations for December 30th, 2012
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Poetry
Suggested by: ^NicSwaner
Featured by: =TwilightPoetess
Angles of SeparationI was born at right angles to the earth
your houses are inscrutable
I stand on the shores of my heart
perched like aliens in a spaceship
who think mirrors are photographs of someone else.
My lips are bitter-tainted
from eating discarded fruits
I need someone to see my hands
waiting like constellations
and grab them through the clouds
to see that this universe is made of stories
so I can finally stand up
and live parallel.
Angles of Separation by ~moon-electric-lives
From the suggester: A truly outstanding finish
to a poem that begins with a bang.
Featured by: `thetaoofchaos
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Hemispheres, Part I by ~Muragaragah
The marvelous arrangement of setting and action
are sung to the reader with superior aesthetics.
Prose
Featured by *doodlerTM
Photograph Six year old Rose decided that today would be the day she asked her grandmother about the painting.
It always held her interest, magic upon a canvas. Perhaps it was the rich colors that shimmered under the perfect lighting. It could have been the girl captured within the painting. Maybe it was all of those things, but she had an idea on what it truly was—the eyes.
They were created by the tip of a brush, but carried more life than anything she had ever seen. Color of ice blue, they carried familiarity, warming the inside of her chest. The more she stared, the stronger it felt.
Rose entered her grandmother's living room to see her standing
Photograph by *dwkeiko
A heartwarming flash fiction piece about
different interpretations of love and beauty.
Suggested by `thetaoofchaos
Featured by *doodlerTM
The Universe on a Ceiling (For a Daddy)Once upon a time, that girl over there asked her daddy to paint the universe on her ceiling.
"I want the stars and the planets," she said, "Sirius and Andromeda and a supermassive black hole. Maybe some dark matter to lurk in the corners, or a quasar star instead of my kitty nightlight."
Her father went outside with a bucket and a ladder spun from sunlight, harvest at dusk, just as the sun slinks beneath the horizon. Her
father set the ladder on the hill behind the house, climbed up, and he wrung the universe from the sky.
He wrung out the stars and the planets, Sirius and Andromeda and a supermassive black hole, or maybe two. He wrung o
The Universe on a Ceiling (For a Daddy) by ~WildWolfMoon94
From the suggester: "This is such a sweet
little scene to honor one's father."
Featured by `Kneeling-Glory
Our Hopes And ExpectationsExpectations
The Evening haze has gently cuddled the city in its warm embrace. Tall lamp posts are shining brightly, spreading crystal clear light all over the street as if hundreds of miniature suns are hanged from the steel polls.
He pulls over and stops the car. The light flows through the windshield and lights the interior revealing his phone lying next to him. He looks at it for some time, his thoughts wandering thousands of miles away from that place. Suddenly, in one confident movement he picks it up and presses the compose a new message button. In a few seconds he types the message and after hesitating for a moment, presses the send button:
- How are you?
Soon the phone vibrates:
- Fine.
In an instant, after reading that one word, a wave of regret crushes
Our Hopes and Expectations by ~Vainamoinenian
The author creates a vivid sense of hope
for forgiveness and reparation in this short
vignette that ultimately leaves the reader
and the character wondering.
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