The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. -Kahlil GibranFifteen year old Pamela Barnes was home from school sick, so, naturally, she was putting away the records and picking up the living room and the kitchen. It was her fifteenth sick day of the school year, too. At least it was spring ( Read more... )

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[Because soldier_ofgod requested angelporn. 2,169 words of mostly not porn at all. Hah.]It was late. She had been warned twice, by the spirits and by the boys' phone call. It was late enough that even most of the animals had gone to sleep, and she was standing at the window of the living room looking out to the edge of the porch light ( Read more... )

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. -Zig Ziglar
soldier_ofgod please don't kill me.She smiled ( Read more... )

Ten times you said I love you.Pam forgives him without ever being asked, without ever considering that another person might do otherwise. This is partly because she isn't another person, she's Pamela Barnes, and taking personal responsibility for not heeding warnings is what she does. Personal responsibility in general is something she considers to ( Read more... )

Thank you...

... to Bobby, for being my friend. For being there for me when I needed someone. For making me laugh. For that weekend at the cabin, even if we never speak of it again. For all those beers you brought over ( Read more... )

There are no pictures of Jesse in the house ( Read more... )

Bundled up in the blankets became smothered in the blankets. Even constricting clothing was too much, forget anything that closed around her neck. She thrashed around in the bed, hands coming up to her neck until she could sit up and remember that she was herself again, in her own bed, alone in her own house, safe as she could be ( Read more... )

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica JongOn the third day, she came out into the world ( Read more... )

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