THE ADULT must understand that they are so only by agreement with others like themselves; but THE ADULT is really only THE CHILD with simpler ambitions. THE CHILD, after all, is ever the eldest in age…

THE ADULT knows black from white and left from right and right from wrong, whereas THE CHILD cares only for colors beyond shades of gray, the ( Read more... )

I think a fair bit of this is drawn from my Philosophy of Death & Dying class last spring. Most of it wasn’t proper philosophy at all, but philosophical discussion of today’s issues, not a series of abstracts like philosophy is generally taught… which though I would still like to take a class in, if only to work out the philosophy of suicide, I ( Read more... )

I am feeling very much relieved that my Brit Lit II prof moved teh due date for that killer poetry project to Thursday. I doubt I'm going to come up with anything decent by then (I've hit 1K, but only one of them really fits in with what we've been studying thus far) I... still have a while? Right. :P I might post the poems later, just to see if ( Read more... )

I feel vaguely poked, so I'm going to post this. Notes at bottom under cut.

A Richer Red Than Ruby

Her hands move like silkworms over the blouses, slim and pale, creeping, caressing, devouring the jewel tones: heliotrope, aquamarine, sapphire, ruby. Silk blouses for a starving girl-child…

She selects the mulberry: Mother always says garnet’s a ( Read more... )

Recognize this, anyone? :P If Furia’s the first real thing I ever wrote, this is the first good thing I ever wrote. Absolutely ancient of course, but all it needed was about four hours of editing and a pot of tea. I still think this is one of the better things I’ve written overall (which goes to show, I don’t think I’ve really budged that far in ( Read more... )

Expanded and updated version of [ this].

This is why I don’t want drugs. This is why I write. This is why I breathe. This isn’t me; this is the red child and the algorithm that both creates and destroys her, and though these are parts of me they are not me in my totality, they are the most common pair of pawns I find myself moving; and one cannot ( Read more... )

Right, I'm going to stop being a stupid and anal and just ask for feedback on my recent crop of shorts, since I've been editing and editing and I'm not getting anywhere. After I get some feedback here, I'll move on to
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