January 2012
19 posts
“JACK
I’m working on a new short story. I wrote the ending, but I don’t know...”
– The Darjeeling limited
Absolute Nobody.: JACKI’m working on a new short... →
balena:
JACK
I’m working on a new short story. I wrote the ending, but I don’t know how it starts.
FRANCIS
Read us what you got.
JACK
“Whatever happens in the end, she said, I don’t want to lose you as my friend. He looked into her eyes. I promise I will never be your friend, no matter what,…
Coffee
George sniffed and wet his lips as he stirred the coffee on the china saucer. Counter clock-wise and then clockwise, three turns to be exact, was his ritual. In the 30 years that he had been coming to this cafe, this ritual had never been broken, although he wasn’t sure why it was a ritual in the first place.
He liked to imagine that it was what made the coffee taste so good in the first...
December 2011
20 posts
“Harry, in a spiral of depression, turns to the escape of the world of miniature...”
– Brad Neely, Wizard People, Dear Readers, chapter 3.
(via aspaciousplace)
“Life not going how you planned it? Life not going according to every little...”
“there’s so many people
wondering whats the right direction
as far as...”
The Boy
He held the scrap of paper in his hands, trembling ever so slightly as he read them, making it difficult to discern the text. It was a bit worn, with some words crossed out in red ink, and his tears, falling onto the paper, were not helping matters.
“Hello my boy, good tidings to you in this dark time. I hope you are
well. Anyways, I must tell you something grave,...
“Wouldn’t it be great if we heard a train go by in the distance? Not...”
“Your hair is soaking wet,
and you try shaking it down,
droplets flinging...”
November 2011
14 posts
“Sunday now and I’m off my knees.
The albatross is in the breeze
and I am...”
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk...”
– Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)
