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OMG Kim - you wrote that? LOL I thought it was from Cow's actual book.
BWAHAHA!
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I love Ann Rule. She writes gritty and absorbing true crime novels and I eat them up like candy. Excellent writer and one of my favorites.
I think Amanda Craig needs a big glass of shut the fuck up juice.
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My exposed breasts, so engorged with life giving nectar from God, tingled in pain.
How'd I do?
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paragon schnitzophonic
Let's put this in perspective, folks. There are currently two unfortunately successful breeders in the literary world. One wrote Twilight and the other plagiarized Twilight. Oh, yeah, everybody is really getting an understanding of the complex emotions and bonds that only breeders can understand. Fuck these whores.
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...WIC cheese coating my mouth, blue swirls of cigarette smoke swirling around my head as I drew another pint, and the soft settling of the house as I tried to nap: this was how loss spoke to me in those first five years.
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It took only a moment for Danielle to slip into the ditch as she reached for a flower, only a moment for her lips to turn blue, only a moment for my world to shatter.
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yurble
I've decided to take a stab at literature - over the top in metaphors, but with fewer florid adjectives. Here I present an excerpt from my never-to-be-written novel,
The Language of Loss
As an orphan growing up with my mother's sister, her two children, and her tacturn husband, I thought I knew the language of loss. It was the lump in my throat that I struggled to speak past, so Aunt Sally wouldn't remind me that nobody loves a sulker. The words were written on my arm in the little blue bruises of Angela's jealous pinches. I tasted loss in the bile that came to my mouth at dinner, when Jimmy gleefully informed me we were eating Bluebelle, and Uncle Jake said, "She was just a cow, for crissakes!"
I learned loss before I spoke a word, as my mother sobbed over my cradle after my father's hunting accident. The stamp was engraved on my heart when my mother took ill when I was twelve, and I believed that the lingering aura was why Angela and Jimmy hated me. They were warding off misfortune, by casting out the child who carried bad luck with her like a cloak.
As I grew older, my vocabulary developed. How do you speak the loss of your first boyfriend to Angela's charms? It's the sound of tears muffled in a pillow, of a thousand sheets of paper covered with hearts and the names of our future children, violently ripped into shreds.
When I left Nebraska I thought I might leave my heartache behind as easily as the farm. I should have known. It isn't so easy to give up your native tongue.
John offered me promise, and escape. He couldn't see my taint. For a while we were happy, wallowing in the early days of our marriage. Then in one instant I was cast into darkness, as blood ran down my legs. I'd lay awake beside John, wretched in my guilt. How could I have failed to nurture his child? John never spoke of it, but I knew he blamed me, and it taught me how you can lose someone who is right beside you. It was punctuation to the sentence of grief my miscarriage had brought. It tasted like salty tears in a dry mouth, and I saw my loss every day in the shining hair of neighborhood children as they ran to bring their mothers flowers they'd collected from the ditches.
Life went on, and John and I reconciled. I prayed daily for God to please give me another chance to be a good mother. I promised I'd give anything, willingly.
I was eight months pregnant when I lost John.
The heart attack that killed him was over in moments, while I struggled for hours in the premature labor the shock caused. Our Danielle was so fragile, lying in the incubator covered with tubes, that I knew she had inherited my sorrow. The loss of John was the color of the fluorescent lights of the hospital, a blurry haze of days and nights as I whispered to Danielle, telling her in our language that she had to live. Her tiny blue veins were stark through her gossamer skin, as she struggled to breathe.
John hadn't left us with much. I worked hard. Nights were long at the bar where I worked while Danielle slept in the back room, and days spent cleaning the house and caring for a baby were even longer as I ached for rest. Danielle became a bubbling five-year-old who was as content to chase butterflies as to help me hang up the laundry. She seemed to have forgotten her early losses; it wasn't imprinted on her soul as it was mine. I saw loss in every pair of torn pants, and in the collapsing boards of the porch I couldn't afford to repair. WIC cheese coating my mouth, blue swirls of cigarette smoke swirling around my head as I drew another pint, and the soft settling of the house as I tried to nap: this was how loss spoke to me in those first five years.
It took only a moment for Danielle to slip into the ditch as she reached for a flower, only a moment for her lips to turn blue, only a moment for my world to shatter. The knock of the police on the door that woke me from my nap was the first sound of the disaster. If you asked me what the end of the world sounds like, I would say it's the knock on the door that drags you from dream to waking. To describe it, I'd draw a picture of her tiny fingers, still clutching a daisy.
I knew the full language of loss. Not a single word escaped me in that terrible instant, and I cursed God for the needles that pierced my heart. The loss of my faith in the Lord was the barest gesture of loss: the moment of silence before I said something completely unforgiveable to the pastor. It was nothing compared to the roar of Danielle's loss, which overwhelmed everything I thought I ever knew, everything I ever thought I had lost.
The loss was carved in the skin of my arms, where I had run my nails down it. It was in every casserole dish I smashed, every door I slammed. I had thought I knew the language of loss, but now I saw the truth before me: grief is an ocean, and until now I had only dabbled my toe. Most people - even those who think they are sinking - are merely sitting on the shore, feeling the cold waves lap over their feet.
I was desperately alone, sinking in the ocean of loss under the light of a blood-red setting sun.
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