A soft and subtle meditation, filled with

beautiful imagery and intense introspection.

_{Suggested by: doodlerTM
Featured by: LionesseRampant}
happy birthdaydishwater the color of dawn
detergent is grayed by three plates
and two mugs. your hands are pruned,
the same soap opalescent against
white ceramic and pale skin.
i dry what you pass to me,
then take your wrists to mop away
the suds that bed beneath your nails,
the color of grayed dawn.
"at least we didn't have spaghetti,"
you say while i spread your fingers,
admiring your dull calluses and
knuckles, thick. "at least you're drying,
i said you didn't have to."
"it's your birthday,"
and i admire the thin hair at your temple,
faintly grayed.
"happy birthday" by glossolalias

_{Suggester says: "A short poem that manages to encompass great imagery
and establishes emotions about aging and romance."}

Prose

_{Featured by LiliWrites}
The Little ThingsWhen you've been wearing the cape as long as I have you learn a few things. You learn that a discreet dry cleaner is more rare than a unicorn. You learn that supervillains are more active on Tuesdays. (I'm serious. Check your calendar the next time there's some weird shit going down.) You also learn that no matter how lonely you are, how desperate, you never...never trust a hooker with your secret identity. The most important thing I learned? Keep your eye on the little things. It's true what they say y'know, they get you in the end.
I'm a big guy. I handle big things. When the city is being ravaged by a...I don't know...fire-breathing squid or something, who do you think they call? I'll tell ya it sure aint gonna be the police. (Well, I mean they DO call them for like the homeless and stuff because let's face it. You fight a giant monster in a populated area there is  gonna be some collateral damage.) That's just the kind of thing I deal with before breakfast. The rest of my day
The Little Things by SubjugatedSandwich

<sub>An interesting, darkly humorous take on an old philosophy.
You only live once, even if you're a superhero.


Suggested by: revampyre
Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>


Isolation by DorianHarper

<sub>Suggester: "a beautifully tragic short story told in the difficult second person tense.
The beautiful imagery mimics the beautiful atmosphere of the story
itself and the dream-like quality it has."



Featured by: LadyofGaerdon</sub>

Words I Wish Existed by linaket

_{An engrossing meditation on the power and failings of language,
and the often nameless feelings that we wish desperately to name,
yet transcend language altogether.}


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