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About
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
"What is grief, if not love persevering?"
"You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath"
Calling all readers, lovers of poetry and music, screen and stage. Quote collecters and lyric hoarders, unleash your archive. Each prompt must contain a quote - you can combine them, add commentary, link to articles, and more. Steal from a literary classic, or WeVerse drama. Have fun!
Examples
Minghao + Ocean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
Ocean Vuong - night sky with exit wounds
Hoshi/Anyone; "Beauty is terror"
Thinking about these two quotes together and the idea of on/off-stage personas:
"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful we tremble before it. And what could be more terrifying or beautiful, to the Greeks to to our own, than to lose control completely?" - Donna Tartt, the Secret Histories
"I am calm in everyday life but when I put on my in-ear device and step on stage, I can feel the tension and hear the cheers getting louder as the music gets louder. When the staff tells me it's time to step on stage, I feel something boil inside me. I feel it steaming inside and I think I have to give a burst of something, spill what is inside me." - Hoshi in Hit the Road Ep. 04
Any ship; "It's been so many years"
Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is old Tom Frost
And I am calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more
Now Martha please recall
Meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all.
Tom Watts - Martha
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worse than knowing
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Prompt:
[FILL] worse than knowing
Rule 63 8Jun
Jun is sure she's in the lake.
They've checked, obviously. Police have done whatever weird dredging they do in a situation like this, combed through decades of layers of litter and trash and fish carcasses and found nothing of interest.
Still, Jun is sure she's in the lake.
It happens like this: Minghao has weak ankles. One fundamental flaw. We all have them. Jun has a short tongue. That's her burden to bear.
Minghao has weak ankles. She likes to run at the lake. She likes to run before the sun melts the frozen grass. She likes to run with music in, loud enough that nothing can be heard.
She likes to run before anyone else is awake.
She was gone before Jun's alarm went off at noon.
And so, Jun is sure she's in the lake.
She waits for a week. She can't tell the police how to do their job, but she's so fucking sure that it eats at her. She's restless, jumpy. She stays with Minghao's parents but can barely stay still.
She's in the lake, Jun just knows it.
Someone more hopeful might assume Minghao is still alive. Jun is hopeful, hopeful to a fault, but Minghao would call. If she was alive at all, even semi-conscious, even if she had amnesia or was in another fucking country, she would remember Jun. Jun knows this in her bones, in the callouses on her feet from a summer gone barefoot down at the coast when they were 16 and barely had hips. She knows this in the ends of her hair, still bleached from Minghao's brief foray into cosmetology. She knows in her fingers, two nails still short just because it makes Minghao flush whenever she paints her fingernails.
Minghao is in the lake. Jun would bet anything.
The police close the case after two months, to public outcry. Minghao is young, pretty, successful. Surely someone, somewhere, should know something. But no one does. Minghao is just gone. Not dead, not alive, not anything. Like she was never there, like the little tattoo on Jun's wrist means nothing. Like the matching one never got inked in the first place.
Jun goes to the lake. The water is warmer than she thought it would be. It feels like a hug.
Minghao is in the lake.
Re: [FILL] worse than knowing
seriously the "she's in the lake" repetition is so haunting, it ties the piece together so well!!
Jun goes to the lake. The water is warmer than she thought it would be. It feels like a hug. also wtf... you're SO GOOD at giving a new dimension (new meaning almost?) to words within the context of a pov... HOW (+ all the little qips feel so!! jun!!)
Jun knows this in her bones, in the callouses on her feet from a summer gone barefoot down at the coast when they were 16 and barely had hips when they... barely had hips... i can't believe you've done this to them... i loved loved loved this
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