“‘There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers, enemies, strangers and friends. But all, all are fragile things made of just 26 letters arranged and rearranged…’ – Neil Gaiman”
“It’s not mine”, he said.
She played and replayed the same line in her head with grief and disbelief. She sat on the cold tiles of the bathroom. Her pruny fingers held the stainless steel to her white, pale wrist. As it kissed her skin and her vein, wine-red liquid oozed out like a melancholy tune.
She hadn’t seen this colour in three months.
Living in the shadows of premonitions; I plea, “Get me out of this darkness, will you? ” The whiskey enlightened stars and the moon have lost its intoxication and I lay here in the first blush hoping to seek solace.
They’re playing our song
Can you see the lights?
Can you hear the hum, of our song?
Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court -
Judges already have the authority to make frivolous litigants pay for their abusive lawsuits. They just have to use it.
“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it’s the halves that halve you in half. I didn’t know, don’t know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.” — www.imdb.com/title/tt1758692/
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ubiquitous, adj.
When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It’s there in
the song that shuffles into your ears. It’s there in the book
you’re reading. It’s there on the shelves of the store as you
reach for a towel and forget about the towel. It’s there as
you open the door. As you stare off on the subway, it’s what
you’re looking at. You wear it on the inside of your hat. It
lines your pockets. It’s the temperature.
The hitch, of course, is that when it’s going badly, it’s in
all the same places.
Amnesty India: Devender Pal Bhullar at risk of imminent execution -
The Supreme Court of India rejected the commutation plea of Devender Pal Singh Bhullar on 12 April. This verdict could affect the cases of at least 17 more prisoners.
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in August 2001 for his involvement in a bomb attack in New Delhi in 1993…
“You’ll spend your life oscillating between fierce relationships that become tunnel traps, and sudden escapes into wide freedom when the whole world seems to be just there for the taking. - Ted Hughes to his son, Nicholas”
As a writer, if you know something and then you keep quiet, it’s like dying.