Daily Literature Deviations for December 13, 2012

by =DailyLitDeviations, Dec 12, 2012, 9:22:04 PM
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Daily Lit Deviations for December 13^th, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: `thetaoofchaos}

Smoking Out Another Story - Found Poetry by ~Flutingspirit

_{Gorgeous arrangement
with a wry edge.}

_{Featured by: =TwilightPoetess}

The railway childrensorry for arriving late on the train to life.
i made you wait
and waiting you stood, clad in grey
you were faceless among cherry blossoms of red
that day.

the train pulled in at 12 o’clock
but i don’t know if that’s midnight or midday anymore
this journey has taken an ice age.
those catholic-oil-painting clouds have
forgotten my name
and i’d say i mind but really i don’t
because you still waited for my train
all the same.

for one moment there i swear we chugged
through ponds of weeds and dragonflies
and i caught one and pulled off its wings
grounded it to a crane fly state
then spat it back up in life’s
The railway children by ~iamalazycapricorn

_{Reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's
Because I Could Not Stop for Death,
~iamalazycapricorn explores the ideas of
forever and transcendent loves in this piece.}

_{Suggested by: *Parsat
Featured by: =LadyofGaerdon}

Overwhelmed1.
Tears stream down your face
like holy water, searing skin,
blessed by old, forgotten truths
and cheeks of rosy porcelain.

Solitary thoughts stand out,
like winter's barren trees.
Tainted with corruption by
the cyst of your deficiencies

and the tumor of your discontents,
(I don't care to excise them by name.)
Sarcoma to sarcophagus,
they're buried much the same.

For what you cannot bear to say
is swallowed by the dark
and swampy waters of your soul,
ignored, to leave their mark.

2.
Tears crowd in your eyes and threaten
quick to stain your cheek.
Pure emotion, unresolved,
exhausts your will to speak.

Serene smile lifts
Overwhelmed by ~MozartsNemesis

_{A wondrous blend of
emotion and imagery,
allusion and illusion.}

Prose

_{Suggested by ~jas08
Featured by *xlntwtch}

Drinking in The AfterlifeFor someone who had killed herself, she was awfully cheerful. She was sitting at a small, one-person table in the corner of the pub, twiddling her hair and giggling. There was a bottle of beer on the tabletop. If I hadn't known that it was untouched, I would have thought she was drunk.

"Something amusing?" I asked, having walked up to her.

She jumped and looked towards me, her eyes finding mine. She smiled somewhat sheepishly. She was such a pretty girl. Why she'd killed herself, I couldn't imagine.

"I just can't believe this," she said. "Who'd have thought there'd be pubs in the afterlife?"

I nodded in understanding. "Indeed."

She tucke
Drinking in the Afterlife by ~TheEmptyChest

_{Suggester said: This is solid and
decent story telling with bits of
the unexpected in it. I agree.}

_{Suggested by ~violetense
Featured by *doodlerTM}

She reminds you of the wishesIt's not so much that she wants to run away. She just wishes she could feel better -- no, she could be better -- in a place which isn't here. Wherever 'here' is anyway. It's always the wrong place.

She's afraid of the sky. And when you asked her why, she said,
"it just looks so heavy. I'm afraid that one day it will fall
down on me
and crush
me."

You could never figure out what she stared at
when she propped her pretty bony elbows on that white windowsill (the paint was chipped but she said that only made it more beautiful, more like home, even though she never quite understood what that word meant) and stayed that way for hours
on
She reminds you of the wishes by ~towards-eternity

_{According to the suggester, this is
"one of the most subtly heartbreaking
pieces (they've) ever read," and
~TowardsEternity really does manage
to artfully craft a story of desire with
She reminds you of the wishes."}

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