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Love Songs
by Ina Barrameda
written and submitted March 22, 2012At the age of sixteen, I learned to swim
In the basin of love songs I’d suffocated in.
To look people in the eye, say hi
Dialogue with lips and lie
But my mind is missing, humming on
To every stupid overplayed love song.
And to the tune, I learned to spin
Ignorant to this earth I’m living in
Blind to everything that’s been
My eyes are focused on the color stacks
Greys and greens, faster, faster
There’s pressure building up in my brain
But I don’t mind
As long as I keep to the melody.
And the dust beneath my feet
Clouds of confusion in cold concrete
Lift me up into the sky
Still in song, I steep into the stars
And I burst ablaze, into a thousand galaxies
Illuminating the evening scene.
And all the people that I know
Still sanity counting hours in streets below
Will look out of the windows and wonder
What a beautiful world we live in
Flashes of violet and white as they sip safe coffee.
And I’ll dance to the great galactic love song
As bits of myself fall to the earth as meteorites.
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Anonymous asked: Do you have a list of links to other local literary magazines (online or not) that I can take a look at/submit to?
Hi Anon! Try Stache for online. Print literary magazines are a bit hard to come by now, but there’s Liwayway, though I don’t know how to reach them.
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On the way to insobriety
by AL
submitted Oct. 29, 2011Hmm… awkward. Might as well drink something.
Haha. That was funny…
Awkward silence. Drink drink drink.
Food! Mmm, this goes well with this drink.
My eyelids feel like they’re a thousand times heavier and a thousand times thicker.
Everything tastes better with this drink. What is this magical liquid?
French fries. Pork sisig. Kalamares.
Woah. Why is my vision delayed?
Haha you are so funny but I can’t hear your joke over the loud music. What did you say? Haha did I tell you that you’re so funny?
I can’t feel my nose. I know I’m breathing but when I touch that spot on my face where my nose is supposed to be, I can’t feel anything.
Shit, the bathroom is so far away. Why is the floor moving?
Hahaha you really are funny. I still can’t understand a single word you’re saying.
My lungs are full of second hand smoke. I’m also asthmatic, by the way. Oh look, more alcohol!
Ice ice, baby. Ice ice baby.
Oh my god, everyone is so stupid. Why is my boss dancing like an idiot? Why are my superiors laughing at everythi—- HAHAHAHAHAHA THAT IS SO FUNNY WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Oh god, I need to go home. Why won’t the floor stop moving, damnit?
I need to lie the fuck down.
Goodnight.
Tumblrrrr.
Goodnight, for real.
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Wonder #1: Titanic & Beyond*
by kebe.tumblr.com
written and submitted September 13, 2011JACK
Rose, listen to me. Listen. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I’m thankful, Rose. I’m thankful. You must do me this honor… promise me you will survive… that you will never give up… no matter what happens… no matter how hopeless… promise me now, and never let go of that promise.
ROSE
I promise.
But that was just talk. Rose asked Leo to climb up the wooden door to be with her but unfortunately, a Shark From The Future (could be from The Beach) magically appeared (of course, it did) and tugged at her (YOU’RE SO STUPID, ROSE!). Leo played a little bit of tug-of-war with the SFTF but the STFT was all like Catch Me If You Can, proving Leo just wasn’t The King of the World (or Ocean, if you like) and Rose went bye-bye into the deep, cold ocean.
And so it was Jack who went out of it and went on, who went to make babies and watched them grow, who died an old man, warm in Limbo with Mal in Inception.____
*Just a little sample, kind of an encouragement that there are no limits on what you may do with your re-imagined favorite movie scenes! This one is sort of both a script and a narrative.
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WCoA turns one this month and to start the celebration, here’s Wonder! Click to enlarge image to read instructions. The chosen entry, and the rest of the future ones, will be announced by the end of the month. You may send your entries until then. (Reminder: one entry per person)
