of Stardust and the Beasts
Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #14 | Professional Curiosity
This week's entry to the club of very awesome writers in the blog-hop of the Sixers was a gift from the Gods. Seriously. I was just doing my IT Infrastructure homework/lab. I still have so much to do, but being able to take my mind off it for a while and work with a different region of my brain keeps me focused. The weekly prompt words for the Sixes are provided by Denise, and you can access all the entries at the link-up. the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #14 "Fuck, FUCK, FUUCK!" Aurelia screeched at the top of her lungs as the hot coffee dripped down her legs and all the Post-it notes she had just finished reorganizing by importance. To make the scene even more dramatic, I have decided that while she ran to the kitchen nook to get a rag—in a RUSH—she banged her small toe full force...
a POEM IN SIX #1 | Prompt Word: BALLOON
This poem is written in six sentences for the prompt word provided to us by Denise. All the other participants in the six sentence challenge with their stories and/or poetry can be found at this week's link-up. Balloon It's not a secret:my youth was violently torn from my hands—an innocence I mournedwhile sipping whiskey straight from the barrel,feigning adulthood. And yet,I was still a child holding onto a balloon,gripping the string with both hands until they bledwhile waiting for a parent that never came. A promiscuous believer,bargaining with every godwhose name I could pronouncefor better things to come. A broken recordreplaying the unfairness of my life,stuck on the whys. But in a fit of mind-altering rage and a will to live,I reached for the needle... Turns out, among all the...
Ten Thing of Thankful #20 | the Car & Time for Self
Time seems to pass by crazy fast ever since university began again, but that doesn't mean I don't have things outside of it to be thankful for… I did try to get out of my school-mind for this week's entry and also a bit this weekend. All the entries for this blog hop are accessible at the link-up. Ten Thing of Thankful #20 First—our BMW is getting fixed. The sills themselves were not that bad at all (only the edges), but they removed all the under-body lining and everything, and it's getting a whole-arse-overhaul… There were a few nasty surprises(it's an old car), but we have already spent a ton of money on it, so there's no use in not doing it correctly. I also got a lot of photos of the...
Short Story | Stockholm Syndrome
“Stockholm Syndrome” is a short story about a young woman who loves so deeply that she sacrifices her own sense of worth. I began writing these pieces to test my ability to craft stories and plots beyond poetry. While some of them are messier than others, I wanted to keep them on the blog because they show how my writing has changed over time. Writing is a skill like any other—you get better with time and, well… writing. While my newer work is much clearer and uses far fewer words, I feel this older “stories” corner is also a part of me, and removing it would be wrong, even if I can now see many flaws in it. Short Story | Stockholm Syndrome It wasn't that she didn't know that he wasn't good for her or that he would never stay the night. It was that she had hope. She believed that in the...
Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #14 | It Hurts
Part of my poetry collection, Margins of the First Draft—in some of the literature I read a lot as a teen, the theme of praying to a god or a mother was quite strong. I borrowed that idea; it wasn’t mine. The words are though. (Authors Note) It Hurts Oh God, oh Mother, I pray to thee Please Help me Poetry on the Margins #14 Aftermath Why does it seem, in times like these,that to loveis to die? I still thinkthat the ability to love another is a gift,and the ability to love once moreis even more of a gift. And to love for a decade, or two —is even a bigger gift. Love transforms us.It truly does. For love doesn't just come in “one size fits all” —and sometimes, it doeshurt a...
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Ten Thing of Thankful #13 | Writing, Poetry & Music
Showing my gratitude weekly has become something of an enjoyable routine for me. The Ten Thing of Thankful blog hop has this mood-lifting effect, both from trying to find your own ten grats' for the list and from reading everyone else's. You can find all the other...
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #8 | Returning Home
This is my weekly entry for the Six Sentence Story writing prompt hosted by Denise. I also wrote another entry this week that's a little different from this one. You can read all the contributions from the other participating authors at the link-up. the Six Sentence...
Six Sentence Story #25 | Prompt Word: PINCH
For this week's Six Sentence Story—the prompt Denise provides us every week—I wrote a rather sad and dark piece of prose from the point of view of someone forced to care for a loved one struggling with addiction. As the subject may be distressing for some readers,...
dVerse POETICS #2 | I am a Great Lover Too
This was a rather interesting prompt from dVerse Poetics, asking us to write a poem inspired by The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke. As I had already been rather productive in the area of writing today, I thought there were worse ways to end the day than by writing a...
dVerse PROSERY #1 | I Know What You Are
And this week I learned that even if I try to write prose, it doesn't resemble conventional prose. Eugh. But the dVerse Prosery prompt gave me an idea, so I just went with the creative flow... thanks dVerse... for giving me the juices on this rainy day. All the other...