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Off Into the Sunset
Today I messaged Gary to let him know that I am withdrawing from the Idol competition ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 5 - When We Were Hunting Rabbits
In the dead of winter they're a flash of white on white, a blur of kicking legs and twitching ears and coal-black eyes weaving among the stick-thin birch trunks and wind-crested snowdrifts. Sometimes you only see the hints of their rapid departure, the miniature flurries of snow kicked from low-lying branches and the quiver of underbrush, the tiny ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol - Bye Week
I had hoped to write something this week - I even had an entry all planned out, and I thought it was actually pretty fun and interesting - but between a grueling work week, personal crap, and feeling not-all-that-great, I'm taking a bye this week.
Hopefully won't have to do that again, but you never know. -
LJ Idol Week 2... The Missing Stair
The paint is Glossy Eggshell White, and it is the strongest substance known to man ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 1... Jayus (Or: My Last Days with Nicholas)
The smoke from his cigarette is a living thing in itself, a coiling, writhing beast that twists in the warm air above his thin fingers. In the spaces between our sentences we watch the swirls of grey-white tear apart in the breeze. The cheap faux-leather of his seat creaks as he moves to brush bits of ash from the plaid cotton of his pants, and I ( Read more... ) -
Week Zero, and an introduction of sorts.
In a mother's crawlspace there is a mildew-stained cardboard box containing relics of a pre-teen girl obsessed with grade school crushes, first kisses, spring dances, and running for class president. Old class assignments, spelling tests with perfect grades, movie tickets from Saturday matinees with a best friend she hasn't spoken to in twelve ( Read more... )