The world's falling apart, piece by piece.  This little box is being ripped open and torn to shreds... I can feel it.  I can hear it.  The air's tearing and the City's full of holes that we aren't allowed to use.  What strange faces everyone's wearing...

The top's gone off.  I need to go and catch a star tonight, before they stop falling.

[ooc: Pre- ( Read more... )

Five exams for classes I don't remember taking...

I know I did very well.

There's so much buzz and chatter about the dance, as if the whole world will be there.  Not really a dance, though--there's never any proper dancing.  Everyone stands about talking in the dark--dresses and boys and gossip--or they squirm around on the dance floor like leggy ( Read more... )

One of my nicest friends found his way home.  Venus put on her best dress and dipped closer to sing with Mars, but Mars hasn't got a voice today.

We'll go 'round and 'round, coming and going and always missing the ones we want to see.

I ask every night for someone nice.  Bits of the world fall in, but not the right bits.  I don't like them-- ( Read more... )

Ohhh, I've never met so many pretty people in one day.  Princes and princesses, dukes and earls--gallant and noble and all down for a moment from their marble pedestals.  They didn't belong to themselves... I could hear the ticking in their heads.  The clock's fingers were stuck in their brains.

Now they're in mine, like noisy little worms.  I can't ( Read more... )