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I sleep with a salamander on my pillow, the Queen said as she stared out the window at nothing in particular. It licks up the tears that fall as I weep at night. One day it will die from all the bitter sorrow it has drunk, but until then it will continue to [...]

A rash of weddings, he said, but I shook my head vigorously. Not a rash, I insisted, why do you make it sound like a disease? Like something that eats at the skin. It should be a joy of weddings, a revel of weddings. A thrill of weddings, maybe. He [...]

I dived into love with you.
I stood on the diving board, rough wood, splinters curling up at the edges. My toes were small and white as they gripped the edge of the plank like a dying man grasps at his last breath. I remember looking down and thinking, I don’t have to jump. [...]

IM SITTEN ON MUH BUTT
EATIN MUH TOEZ

TOEZ R TASTEH
OM NOM NOM NOM

I pad quietly into my parents’ room. My sister doesn’t have to go to school this week on account of her drama performances this weekend (hearts and luck, baby girl, I’m sorry I can’t make it) so Dad didn’t have to wake up to drive her to school.
This morning, however, it was bucketing down [...]

I saw this written on a blue steel door in Israel, back in 2005. I thought it was funnily crazily emo and strangely out of place in the Holy Land, and thus it struck a chord in me. How could I not snap a photo?
I’m posting this now because I remembered and [...]

The fulfillment of love can be so simple sometimes.
It’s hard to explain. But the smallest of things can keep one terribly happy.
Weirdo :)

As I walk down the corridor, my nose wrinkles faintly. The smell is antiseptic, violently clean, with an undercurrent of old age. It’s the scent of grandparents lying in beds, waiting for their turn to die. Eau de hospice. Eau de old. The smell of impending death.
Just the day before, [...]

I’ve been a bit of a stroppy cow lately, I know. I’m just so bone-deep tired everyday and wondering where all the time is going. I can’t spend a few minutes doing something for myself without my mind wandering back to work and to that class that’s giving me such a headache. [...]

The best surprise is the kind you never see coming. That you never expect.
The best surprise is getting the world’s biggest and best and most unexpected Valentine’s Day card ever, right where everyone can see it.
Can’t stop smiling :)
And because this post wouldn’t be complete without a little sentimental mush, here’s a Valentine’s Day [...]