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Unkind (TM 232)
TM 232: Is there a situation where it's appropriate to be unkind?
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TM 225: Without words
TM 225: "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" - Marcel Marceau.You might think that, without sight, spoken words would become that much more important. Directions. Descriptions. Tone of voice conveying expressions. But when I think about it, some of the most important moments of my life have been ones in which no ( Read more... ) -
The beginning of the end. (TM 218)
218: Write about a lie your parents told you.Eleven-thirty on a Saturday night, and we're in the kind of "fancy" restaurant where the big men smell of cheap cigars and polyester; the women smell like hairspray and even cheaper perfume. The kind of joint where the salad is iceberg lettuce and dressing, period, with a packet of saltines on the side ( Read more... ) -
TM 214: "To be great is to be misunderstood."
214: "To be great is to be misunderstood."If time had stopped when I was twenty, I think I could have been happy forever. Things were so simple. So unbelievably perfect. Even the mundane...was perfect. Kissing Elektra, both of us naked, twined together on the twin bed. Cheap cotton sheets under my back and pizza grease on her lips. We went ( Read more... ) -
TM 208: Four
208: Four
You live with someone for four years, and you know them. Usually. After four years, you know about the bad things as well as the good. You accept the bad, because if you don't, you don't make it four years. Not without going nuts, anyway. Four years is longer than a lot of marriages last. If four months in a relationship is ( Read more... ) -
204: Sometimes the appopriate response to reality is to go insane.
204: Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. (Philip K. Dick)
I don't think going insane is ever an appropriate response to reality, even when things happen that are so terrible you do not think you can possibly live through them. Losing it is sometimes the easiest response. Maybe even the expected one. But appropriate? ( Read more... ) -
Unexpected (solo RP to explain Matt's absence in the Doug-in-prison plot)
The conference had seemed to last longer than four days and had been alternately boring as hell, irritating (how many people had brought up Daredevil?), and lonely. These things were at least bearable when Matt and Foggy went together, but Foggy had been up to his eyebrows in research and couldn't spare the time. But one of them had to go, and ( Read more... ) -
TM 200: Choose a prompt (lyrics chosen)
200: Lyrics prompt
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it...
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously (Bob Dylan, "Visions of Johanna ( Read more... ) -
TM 196: You've been granted one wish.
196 - Congratulations! You've been granted one wish. What is it?
If I could wish for anything? I'd want my dad back.
I know that makes me sound like a kid, but I don't care. I was a kid. I wasn't--I don't think anyone is ever prepared to lose a parent, but--I wasn't ready. Not then. Especially not like that ( Read more... )