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Own Skin

I bought myself a Moleskine to emulate Picasso, Hemingway was never seen without his in canal-side cafes, Spanish bull rings. My fingers grease its ebon spine over and over in tactile search for some hidden leak of creative essence I found Dante's house down an old narrow street alongside a crowd of German tourists I did not enter only stared at his stones, the exterior. The hotel room is filled with the buzz of the alleyway below, restaurant kitchens' backdoors opening for cooks, waitstaff, rubbish bags and oaths, effusive shoppers admiring new pashmina scarves haggled from vendors in the adjacent market square. I close t

Foreground by pseudometry, literature

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Foreground

Four thirty AM I am standing in my kitchen wearing my dark blue dressing gown building a time machine from assorted cutlery and a broken microwave. I am visiting you three years ago. I have calendars for you with notes written each day: some are highlighted orange to show you when to ignore the things I say. Others are circled blue, and on these occasions I meant every word. I am smiling at you, already knowing the day you leave I will understand in time, despite what I say. You look at me quizzically: bemused by this odd smiling. It’s four years later: upsetting things we said seem like empty noise, instinctive

Quiet Neighbours by pseudometry, literature

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Quiet Neighbours

Curtains pulled, lit up some nights: but no one’s ever sitting outside an infant stroller upright in the frost-thick grass, growing mould next to a wire clotheshorse; both been there weeks, though someone’s still mowing the lawn around the concrete slab, marking where the apple tree fell with autumn’s storms and gave rise to an occasion to plant commemorative rose bushes all twisting branches, wearing only leaves now their season has passed, but who wants to see roses blooming alone in winter?

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Our Lights by MrBrainheart, literature

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Our Lights

A home in dark waters, Life sails on by and I can’t tell the why from a lie For too long it has seemed alright For too long the ships have come and gone Far too long gone Some are out there, waves lapping against comfortably creaking wood, creaseless sails strummed by the wind Others only shimmer in a rippling reflection, but all of them, they sail on by And though they may have the whole of the ocean We still share in the quiet lights of the night sky. Can it be enough? Time has a funny way of passing, Once, when the waters were fresh, every wave crashed ashore a little differently, Every one its own tale, stories thrown into my l

Publishing Resources List by SadisticIceCream, journal

Publishing Resources List

Jun 1, 2011

Totally overwhelmed? Start here! Make sure you :+fav: the news article! So you've written something freaking awesome. You've edited a million times (and if you haven't, turn around and go do that. Right now). You think you maybe want to take the leap and try publishing something. But you have no idea where to start. Well, this is a good place to be. This the journal where I'll be keeping a running list of all the publishing resources I find, both on and off dA. Most of it will probably be related to literary journals, since that's the stage where I'm at in my literary career, but I'll add things about book publishing as I find them. If y

I Only Care About Your Happiness by glossolalias, literature

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I Only Care About Your Happiness

There was a problem last night, with the shaking yellow crystals through which your garage light was refracted in a dozen amber waves, where the broken folding chair took its kingdom with the smoke and left me or you to the floor, in the angle of my tendons shaded by the jagged tension in your absent tooth-smile, brought upon while I brushed your knee accidentally, when your phone struck concrete.

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Fantastic Feature Tuesday #32

Feb 20, 2013

This is a weekly feature of amazing literature that I come by during my travels across deviantART. This is only a small sample of a vast amount of wonderful pieces of literature written by absolutely fantastic writers. Each deviation was carefully selected from a writer's gallery based on structure, impact and word usage. I will never feature the same person twice, so check out these wonderful writers now while you can! Please this news article so it will reach a larger audience! :thumb348601916: :thumb180364514: :thumb263366451: :thumb333343608: :thumb284370622: :thumb187356181: :thumb143642506: :thumb204269472: :thumb189541915: :thu

Lit screens don't work, and dA knows it by beeswingblue, journal

Lit screens don't work, and dA knows it

Jan 16, 2013

Please know that not only do lit screens not work (Google your work) -- dA knows that it is misrepresenting them. I think folks should write to the Help Desk en masse and let them know that this is simply unacceptable. Here's the interchange I had with them. Be aware. P.S. The poem used in this example has now been put into storage, and I've requested Google delete the cached version. realitysquared, Jan 15 01:51 pm (PST): Thank you for contacting deviantART customer service, I will be assisting you with your support ticket today. My apologies for the delay caused by a large volume of incoming customer service tickets. Because deviantART

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Personal Quote: Only the mediocre are always at their best -- Jean Giraudoux

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Whoever makes all the trees

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Vertigo, It's A Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko, Children of Men, My Neighbour Totoro, 12 Angry Men, Best in Show

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Oz, Six Feet Under

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Tom Waits, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, The Mountain Goats, Bob Dylan

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The Brothers Karamazov, Disgrace, The Road, Blood Meridian, Infinite Jest, Middlesex, Watership Down

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Fyodor Dostoevksy, J.M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Maurice Gee, Carl Sandburg, David Foster Wallace, Jeffrey Eugenides, Billy Collins, Flannery O'Connor, Anthony Burgess, Keri Hulme, John Updike, John Milton

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May 2, 2013

Difficult to define monosyllabic words?

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So. I've begun to compile a list of difficult to define monosyllabic words, for reasons of, well, why not. Right? Yes, exactly my thoughts. So anyway. What follows is what I've come up with so far; if you've got any grand suggestions please fire away! It'd be much appreciated. I figure some of you out there must share an appreciation for this sort of thing. Don't be shy. (And yes, I'm aware 'difficult to define' may indeed be so very very highly subjective etc etc etc) The list so far: Kith Ken Ked Kemp Kip Orts Skein Gryke Grok Gyre Tarn Tine Tor Spile Lisle Rill Rime Hoar Verve Chyme Chyle Chintz Zarf Qua Fugue Fey Pule S