all lights are out and all bets are off. we stand in the driveway of my childhood home, your lean lines a sprawling angular darkness against my car, my awkward hands anchored in pockets. i stare up at a face i've known for five years, loved for four, and resented for god-knows-how-many. here we are finally strangers because my tongue has swollen ( Read more... )

kim: America isn't Christland and the Bible shouldn't matter, in my opinion that's like using Lord of the Rings to decide peoples rights. Church vs. State. You can drive-thru and get married, 50% of Americans get divorced, its no longer sparkly and magical.

mimi: anyway according to tolkien we'd have a whole new system of getting married.

mimi: O ( Read more... )

and for some reason, there are stacks of old cosmos in the bathroom that must have been a relic from my early teenage years when i decided i needed to read up on ~naughty sex tips~ despite my raging virginity. i decided to re-investigate these ( Read more... )

my parents and i went out to lunch for my mother's birthday today ( Read more... )

our 4-year anniversary is this weekend. oh boy.

7/3/08things i finally understand ( Read more... )

bella novik bruised easily and violently. not a day would pass when she would leave her apartment unadorned with blue-black imprints interrupting her pale skin like medals. she never bothered to hide them with powder, concealer, or long-sleeved shirts. she wore them like sunglasses, dark and obvious against her body and yet hiding a telltale ( Read more... )

"i am the sword in the darkness. i am the watcher on the walls. i am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers. i am the shield that guards the realms of men."

i just want to quit school and become a sworn brother of the night's watch.