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Immaculate
Mud mutters beneath my fingernails, but it is just a raven, and I am still a human, so I must hold onto my mind. I started sketching flowers on my skin, swallowing strange pills that weren’t made for me, because I believe that I can believe a change, if I try hard enough. The gates…
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The Bullet
I told you that I had left New York for good, but I told you a lot of things. I’m not a liar, I just don’t keep up with the future, and so I really never meant to make it back here, and I really thought that I had moved past this, but here we…
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Bloodline
Once upon a time, there was a lonely man. If I am to be truthful, I must tell you that he was not quite a man, but still, he was ever so lonely. He had the world at his feet, and a power that made the ground beneath him shudder in terror, but still, like…
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Among Friends
The oak had stood for as long as any of us could remember. You could see her in pictures going back hundreds of years, and paintings that went even further. Some in the village even believed that she had been here since time began. She stood in the centre of the valley, all alone, but…
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Picking Apples
We would pick apples in the summertime, and he would tell me that I was the girl that the world had been waiting for. As the red, ripe apples kissed goodbye to the branches that birthed them, he would kiss my forehead, the cool breeze rushing past my face and toying with my dark curls. …
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 