Broken Plate Day |
[a short story]I can't even remember what you said that got me so upset. I just remember turning to look at you with the plate in my hand and then letting it drop. I'm not even sure why I did it. You ...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:46:00 PST |
Something, nothing, everything. |
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________________________Un:You're alive, you're alive, you're alive.So, what are you so afraid of?You have color on your cheeksand words in ...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:12:00 PST |
panic/sleep |
One: My eyes are shut, I am mostly asleep, however I feel vibrantly aware. There is a plain, white wall -- flawless, innocuous -- it flashes into my mind with complete and captivating clarity.&...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:38:00 PST |
An excerpt from my life: |
[Delian = my somewhat crazy, thirty-two year old, foreign boss]
Delian: You know I can see you being one of those crazy, old ladies who live alone with lots of cats when you are older.
Ra...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:14:00 PST |
spring break. |
I have a professor that spells "desert" with two s', and once brought a sock puppet to class.
I have a professor who always wears a bowtie, and somehow works the subject of sex into every lectu...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:10:00 PST |
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It's hard to know where to begin sometimes; all the weighty intricacies that compound a human being. The balancing, the measuring...all the things you want to forget, all the things that you want to ...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:11:00 PST |
Think of the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. |
Its almost impossible. Your mind races trying to come up with a sufficient answer, but there is none. You always forget.
There is a certain sadness mixed into the most incomprehensibly lo...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:48:00 PST |
Let's be honest for once. |
Heres one thing I know: I despise offices, hospitals, and the so-called professionals that inhabit them.
It was sunny and cold as I walked into the large building that had so many windows it al...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:35:00 PST |
(love / loved / loving / lovely / lovey) |
Everything is / was / will be
And we all are / were / will become
Something / nothing / everything
All at the same time
(Stop kick / kicked / kicking
And
Scream / screamed / screaming...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:14:00 PST |
Choose your own adventure. |
You are at a stop sign in the middle of fucking nowhere. You light up another cigarette and either:
a) Turn right onto the paved road that you know eventually leads you toward home, or
b) Keep g...
Posted by rachel tomlinson on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:19:00 PST |
