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Chosen Family
We have never been in love, but his name is neatly sewn into the lining of my long suffering heart, and it is the only part that has always been hallowed ground. Slipping his hand into mine, with a chaste, close kiss on the cheek, he knows the pain of my path, and chooses to…
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Forests
Swallows in the forest, silently searching for a branch to call home, spying on me, as I swallow my apprehensive affirmations. I will tell the truth, tepid tears, shining, sweet in the moonlight. Birds brush up against my reality, and everything feels so final, but so new. The night is unforgiving, and I am understanding…
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Gargoyles
Do not give your love to gargoyles. They gaze with awe and envy from their stony, storied homes but they will spend their nights tearing at your flesh, stone cold, staring into your eyes as they feast on your feelings, a mere appetiser for what they’ll do to your entrails. They never learned table manners,…
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Stornoway
I never made a promise that I couldn’t keep, but I could never hold on to the many that were made to me. Soaked in snake oil, and given to a girl with an open heart, they were just the right words, at the right time, from the wrong kind of optimist, one who thinks…
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Cannibal Holocaust
I am human, so they tell me, dragged from the river, forced into the ritual. I heard a cheerful whistle, far away in the trees, a soul who had escaped, perhaps? Nobody who knew this horror could craft such a beautiful tune, and let it escape from their lips, into all this. I want to…