I have 2 days and 22 hours until IB exams start. I am panicking. I have a cold 3 weeks after I got over my last cold. I have an English essay due tomorrow, and every critical analytical essay between now and Thursday must be written under 2 hours, maximum. I am facing the culmination of the last two years of my life, here!

But all that is immaterial ( Read more... )

Notes: Here's the first English assignment of the semester, and the first in a regular class since a year ago. It's 2:14AM. And I barely, barely just fit this into the guidelines for this personal response, because I couldn't write anything but a story.
Thus, my first mildly lengthy original story in a long, long time.
Any Doctor Who fans that skim ( Read more... )

A clear moonless night
    -an astronomer's dream
Shadows on the snow
    -by a moonlit stream
Dark behind the stars
    -where more stars dwell
A salty night breeze
    -on the ocean swell

The border of twilight
    -where myths do live
A fairy blessing
    -not hers to give
A magical bolt
    -from a unicorn tusk
A single silence
    -the ( Read more... )