Look at you
You hooded thing.
Hiding your face with a mask that betrays more
Than your true identity ever could.
What are you, little one?
You slip so easily into the shadows,
As if you're one yourself.
Silent and cautious,
No one really recognizes you
For what you are.
Oh yes, you tell them.
You show them distorted images
And broken sentences
Baring your soul to anyone who will listen.
Anyone who will look.
But they don't see you.
As hard as you try,
As much as you scream at them,
They never see you for you.
You dance around the fringes of their world,
So much a part of it,
And yet you're a complete stranger as well.
Spreading your han
“I'm not saying they're not killing each other,” I explain. “I can see from the figures in front of me that they're killing each other. What I'm saying is that unless you can broaden your demographic, we're never going to meet our targets for this quarter. This is supposed to be a world war, Belgium and the Netherlands isn't going to cut it.”
War squawks at me down the phone. It's hard to hear him over all the screaming in the background, but frankly I'm not interested in his excuses, I need to see results.
“What do I expect you to do? Do your job! Think outside the box! Look, Famine is in Europe right now, why
A week before that day, my cat, Vaquito, had a fever, he was 42ºC (4º above the normal temperature), he was very depressed, so I took him to the vet. She put an injection to stop the fever and the pain, then I bough some medicine to give him during the next days. I carried him on my arms by the street, because the vet is on the same street, I was talking with him (well, to him), telling him to get better, that I would take care of him and everything was going to be okay. I took him a photo on the next day.
He spend the next days a little depressed, with a little fast breathing, but better than the past day. He stayed on my room and
The Ozymandias Principle (Sandbox Jenga) by akrasiel, literature
Literature
The Ozymandias Principle (Sandbox Jenga)
Ginny always had a penchant for destroying things.
At the age of four, she was introduced to blocks (perhaps a devastating mistake on her preschool teacher’s part.) The brightly-colored wooden shapes held a certain fascination for her. While her classmates took a simple childish glee in building things up and knocking them down again, Ginny looked on their ways with disdain. She would carefully create an elaborate structure, and pull out all the key pieces until only a bare framework was left, shivering on the edge of collapse. Then she would tap on just one, or blow on it with her mouth, and the whole skeleton would come crumbling d
Don't Look Under the Bed by BlueBlueFox, literature
Literature
Don't Look Under the Bed
The only rule we had when we were children was to never look under the bed.
Not just any bed, but the bed of our mother. She hid something down beneath the bed that we weren't meant to see. Some great secret protected by the boogeyman, she would tell us. "If you get on your hands and knees and try to look... he'll jump out! And grab you!" After the threat was made, she pounced on either myself or my brother, laughing and tickling until we were nothing but a pile of small giggles on the floor.
We took the words seriously, however. Running into the room to awaken our parents on holidays like birthdays or Christmas, or Thanksgiving, any of the
(Iceland X Reader) Lava Bucket Challenge by KHMewKairi, literature
Literature
(Iceland X Reader) Lava Bucket Challenge
Bright, alert {E/C} eyes were staring directly into the laptop screen. The {H/C}-haired female tried to hold back her laughter, as she was watching two of her goofy friends of Nordic origin, Lukas and Mathias, do the Ice Bucket Challenge. She watched how Lukas dumped a bucket of ice-cold water onto Mathias, as she couldn't contain herself, the young female began to laugh loudly, soon, Mathias began speaking in the video, as (Name) stopped laughing, and glued her {E/C} on the screen again.
"We nominate Emil Steilsson to do the Ice Bucket Challenge!"
The young female recognised that name in a million, as her mind fell into deep thoughts.
Ah,