LJ Idol week 30 (6/6): vacation

It's an understatement to say that I was a very imaginative child. I blame it on my mom, who encouraged me to go fight thorn witches in the backyard and dine on lilac sandwiches as a reward. Lilac sandwiches consisted of a sprig of flowers slapped between two fat green leaves, and were best consumed with "tea" (i.e. ( Read more... )

LJ idol week 30 (1/6): gobsmacked

Shortly before my 21st birthday I shaved my head. This wouldn't have been particularly notable except for the facts that I: a) am a girl, and b) decided to do it on a whim.

You might have heard of a pop culture phenomenon called Rocky Horror, affectionately known as Rocky. Since the last 1970s, this midnight ( Read more... )

LJ Idol week 27: once upon a time

I went to college where hippies weren't confined to textbook pages. As you walked to class, you were fairly likely to see people smeared with purple paint dancing naked in the meadow in broad daylight. Where a family of raccoons that wanted your all-natural organic flavored-with-elderberry-syrup granola bar1 would ( Read more... )

LJ idol week 20: open topic

When I am a mad old woman,
I will cover the walls with writing,
recording the whisperings of my books
that rise like an inky smoke from the shelves.
Words will splash the walls
and though the landlord will try to paint over them,
those fables and fairytales will still glow through.

The neighborhood children will hear the ( Read more... )