well hello there. (; i got annoyed with that big long journal on my front page.
so now there's this short one. i hope you enjoy it.


BreezeTheres nothing in the room besides the breeze of your breath, and that makes you nervous. Wheres your voice, wheres your heart?Breeze
Blood stains your sleeve and you wonder, absently, if its there, your heart, blossoming out onto your skin, out of the slices you put there, out of the words that you wrote. Big, black, mean letters, written over a litter of small cuts. I want to be free it screams. You trace it with your tiny fingertips and find that theres something else in this room love. And you dont know why or what it means that it hits you like it does but its hard and


The Village Keeper: fiveShe wakes up before the sun, stirs against me, presses her nose into my neck and smells my fur. I dont know why, but this is her morning ritual. Then she gets up and stretches and together we eliminate all evidence of our fire. Weve gotten good at taking the days in small steps. Sometimes I wonder what were looking for, but I never let myself wonder long. Stupid as it sounds, I kind of like the mystery.The Village Keeper: five
Cmon, she says. This is the first, and probably only, word of the day. She doesnt say my name anymore, if she can help it. Our names connect us to the past, after all, and all she wanted


The Village Keeper: fourThe biggest (physical) mark of how long weve been running, is me. Since weve started, my fur has become matted, the bright amber of my eyebrows and muzzle and chest and legs and chin has dulled into an aging copper. Wisps of grey have appeared under my eyes. I know because, sometimes, when my girl is in a particularly bad mood, I wander off to a pond or river or creek or lake, whatevers close, and stare into the clear water. I dont see any of me left in my face.The Village Keeper: four
Sometimes, Ill see her, a long way down the bank, far enough that she couldnt see me if she looked up, and see her looking at herself,


The Village Keeper: threeA long time ago, when she used to hitch a piece of cloth to my throat and take me through town, people would cringe when they saw me. Children would try to play with me, and I would try to play with them, but mothers and fathers would gasp and tear them away from me. I never understood why. My girl never explained. I loved little kids; I loved their sweet chubby faces, the light in their eyes. Most adults bothered me, though, because of their harsh eyes and sharp mouths, but I had always wondered about their minds. My girl was in between, so she was okay. She was everything. I mean, without her, I would have died. So I had to at least think oThe Village Keeper: three


she sold seashellsfrancesca sits at the sill with swarthy legs dangling seaward. their holiday home cliffs off to the heaving ocean and together they sigh in a breathy unison. wind gushes around her, quieting her with a 'shhhhh' and gently suggesting a fall. she licks dry lips and almost succumbs to the wind's murmurs. how easy it would be for her to slip and fall weightlessly into the warm sea that held her as a child.she sold seashells
every april they come here and every may they leave once more. francesca leaves the city behind- and with bottles of sand and broken shells she tries to bring the sea back with her. but inspiring smoke and exhaling city air will ne


the things we can't remember-you have my ring, you know. my thick silver one that says my name. you used to wear it on your pinky because your fingers were too big, clicked it annoyingly against glass surfaces. you also probably still have several of my socks, sticky gummi bears, and the necklace you took from my kitchen and promptly broke.the things we can't remember-
you still have the note i wrote you in september of 2006, the one i penciled on yellow cardstock that you tucked into your wallet. the fortune from the chinese restaurant that said i would be your wife. a deck of cards that i wrote on, fifty-two reasons why i loved you.
you still have my learner's permit in y


illumination. she goes by danielle.illumination.
she borrowed it from her dead aunt because she can't stand her actual first
name - charlotte. she says it reminds her too much of the serial killer charles
cullen. [not charles manson, charles cullen. she's always been one to look for
lesser-known options.] danielle sounds much lovelier, she says, like some kind of yellow wildflower. perhaps she's thinking of dandelions, which are actually
weeds, but i've never told her that.
it doesn't really matter, because i secretly call her charlotte anyway, just in
the back of my
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