It was meant to be a self-introduction to an online website explaining why I wamt to apply to them as an editor/contributor but it seems like I get too excited when talking about words. Oh well. I'll work on it and the next one will be better ( Read more... )

I am reproducing this word by word from a piece of folded (quartered) jotter book paper that has writing on it that must be, oh, I don't know, two to four years old? Either way, it was a very old idea that never went anywhere and that hit me very suddenly, which would explain the hideous light blue of the kind of cheap blue pens I haven't touched ( Read more... )

"i feel in love with you because a butterfly flapped its wings in Mexico, precipitating a chain of events, so great, so miraculous and so inexorable, that it was all i could do to be swept away."

Just a reminder that sometimes good things happen to ordinary people for no reason. And that I have a chronic habit of writing short succinct and pretty ( Read more... )

Total word count: 8275
Uses of 'said': 24
Words ending in -ly: 170
Smiles: 35
Glares: 4
Laughs: 3
Sighs: 1
Blinks: 0
Nods: 0

Special SSBB Edition Words
Kiss: 6
Gasp: 1
Moan: 0
Lick: 0
Groan: 1
Stroke: 0
Thrust: 0

The lack of sex scene is especially conspicuous using this word counter. Oh well BWAHAHAHAHA. This story needs a name

 So how intelligent can this story be? I just wanted to write something depressing and tragic because I was so tired and fedup with examinations that just didn't resonate well with me. So hence The Letters were born :)

Also, I always wanted to try first person, and letters are an easy transition from third to first.

Funny, to write this, I went to ( Read more... )

"We do not own our literatures, any more than we own our culture, or history, or the place where we are born or live now or are buried: we merely rent them, and during the times for which they are in our possession we make of them what we can, and then we pass them on; they pass away and out of our lives ( Read more... )

 “This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered ( Read more... )

_______ “Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: bought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, ( Read more... )

Spent today listening to Hatsune Miku's Eager Love Revenge album -- I have to say I never thought I'd like remixes actually. It's all quite new. Seriously, remixes that are nice? It never occurred to me. I mean, acoustic versions aren't really remixes anyway... right ( Read more... )