Collecting Things Collecting ThingsCollecting Things by ~Ivorykeygirl05
I tell you because I know: there were days
that you pasted into your scrapbook memory
(or maybe taped them at the corners with careful fingers, one-by-one four-times-each wait-that-one’s-crooked),
the ones whose colors echo the quirky movies I’d stop to watch with you.
but there are others, maybe underdeveloped or dark -
darker than the road that lost our way
on the car-ride home -
that didn’t quite make it.
They’re the sunbleached billboards of a retired highway,
left to peel in isolation
unless someone else cuts them,
Like balloon strings,
in straight lines
and weave ribbons of
Short story - Lost and Found Lost and FoundShort story - Lost and Found by ~Ivorykeygirl05
Six days was all it took to reveal exactly how dismal the words LOST AND FOUND could be. The spiteful combination of scrawled green sharpie on fuzzy cardboard and beige high-gloss wall paint under fluorescent overheads mocked me then more than ever; it was conclusive futility in the shape of a real-life recurring dream. I wondered if Alex ever had dreams like that. Probably.
Behind me, the flimsy door nestled back into its aluminum frame to encase me in a paper-clipped and alphabetized universe. A lonely phone toned in another room of the office to call the secretary away from her desk, leaving me alone with the
Lonely 
Sta.sh
- Kyle K.
Also, me too.
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
-Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
:3 I think you should art tutor me.
Lizzieee~
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I own The Doctor (Matt Smith) in dA's Celebrities Crew!
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I own The Doctor (Matt Smith) in dA's Celebrities Crew!