Finality
Trigger Warning: death/murder, imprisionment Through the corridors of silent eyes watching for my demise, I could see it. The presence of your touch, flitting about with its ghostly palms, reaching … Continue Reading Finality
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Trigger Warning: death/murder, imprisionment Through the corridors of silent eyes watching for my demise, I could see it. The presence of your touch, flitting about with its ghostly palms, reaching … Continue Reading Finality
Prompt: Write about something that makes you feel calm and safe. Lux’s age: 24 CW: n/a? — Looking back to when I was younger, I don’t think I ever truly … Continue Reading Calm and Safe – Last Blog Post: #12
Can you hear it? The whispers that sink into your skin, words that feel like they’re burning, scathing, reaching inside of yourself to breathe life and then rip it out. … Continue Reading Don’t Let It Win
Prompt: What grinds your gears and really annoys you? Lux’s age: 25 CW: Mentions of a poly relationship — Things that “grind my gears” and annoy me (I was confused … Continue Reading What grinds my gears? – Blog Post #11
Trigger Warning: burns, death Crooked archways hang above the shattered glass pieces of the mirror on the floor, intricate runes lining the dark hallway and illuminating it with their glow … Continue Reading The Box
Dance. Dance exquisitely, perfectly, like you were made to do this because you were. Dance. Rise on your toes for the pirouette. Perfect. It has to be perfect. Dance. Become … Continue Reading The Endless
TW: PTSD/CPTSD, mentions of panic attacks, pedophilia, sexual harassment/assault, attempted rape — I have this recurring dream that scares me awake in the middle of the night. This dream usually only happens when I am really stressed or depressed, though there are some exceptions. When they happen, I am always unable to fall back asleep, fear, panic attacks, and tears keep me awake, and am then usually haunted by it for the next day or so. I hate thinking about this dream, it is full of distorted traumatic memories that bring back the actual things, causing me to relive those experiences.
Trigger Warning: gore, mutilation, burning alive The dance of Memorabilia. Sentenced to any individual in the state of parasitic-influence. It was originally acknowledged as inhuman, demonic, a bloody affair that … Continue Reading The Lovers’ Dance
Prompt: What do you look forward to every week? TW: hints at depression – I don’t think I look forward to anything every week… I don’t look forward to time off work. I don’t look forward to work. I don’t look forward to meals.
Trigger Warning: death, gore, and murder. Black eyes stare at me through the green night, a thundering boom shattering the wind into broken pieces and leaving everything in silence. I … Continue Reading Death in Decision
Prompt: Write about a time you watched the sunrise. — I have seen the sunrise several times, but the most memorable time must be when Andrew, Aurora, Camilla, and I went on a trip about a year ago.
I’m appalled at the state of you. I didn’t know lives could be so fragile until I held your beating heart in the palm of my hand. You look so … Continue Reading Bargaining
Prompt: Did you have a “lovey” as a child? Do you still have one? – I didn’t really know what this question meant by a “lovey” but Aurora told me that it was a stuffed animal, blanket, or toy that one was very emotionally attached to and viewed as a comfort, often not wanting to be apart from it.
Fire danced in her eyes, a blistering heat that taunted her, a slow cascade back and forth before her face, close but never touching, testing how close it could get. … Continue Reading Farewell, young flame.
Prompt: Were you ever bullied as a child? Tell a story of a time you were bullied, or a time you observed someone being bullied. TW: Bullying — I have been bullied, though not in the typically assumed way. I wasn’t bullied by other kids in my town. I was bullied by my siblings.
Dedicated to Hind Rajab, Sonya Massey, and all the lives unjustly taken. Trigger Warning: mentions of death and gore The dust, the sand, the street. The ghost of a fleeting … Continue Reading The End