Prompted by Skeletons by Alexander Wolfe.

There are 206 bones in the human body.

You were born with over 270 bones, though many of those later fused.

I was not.

I gathered my bones one by one.

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Prompted by I Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man by John Craigie, and perhaps Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō.They say that a calling is a job you'd do even if you didn't need to work ( Read more... )

Prompted by One True Thing by Tylan (and brainstorming for Dreampunk with Sarah).We don’t have much in the way of certainty, least ‘round these parts ( Read more... )

Prompted by Bottomfeeder by Amanda Palmer."That's not how karma works," she said. "There's not some Universal Karma Authority that measures how much you tipped your last cab driver and adjusts your expected time to hail your next cab accordingly ( Read more... )

Prompted by Pearls by Antje Duvekot, though I didn’t stick very close.We all sell ourselves, in the end. Don’t have any illusions about it. I just cut a little closer to the violence, is all. Or I did, at least. Who knows what I’ll do now ( Read more... )