Keep the streets empty

Someone keep the streets empty for me. I’ll walk them with my bare feet and feel the cracks with the curling tips of my toes, scuffing my nails but I won’t care. He walked along this way before, parting the crowd like an ice breaker. They part for me but for different reasons. Each of us has his own way. Whatever works, we’re practical folk. The thought of him, touching him, foot to foot, letting the warm pavement crawl up my bones, allowing for a shivering moment of success and small pleasures. It leaves though, with sudden flashes of realisation, knowing that this isn’t possible and people are looking. Fuck the people, fuck their pig eyes. 




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Continuing my rebellion against the book. Also having auditions for a Famous Friend, please send a message of sincere appreciation and your claim(s) to fame. My preference would be Simon Amstell or Die Antwoord, although Die Antwoord scare me. However I have embraced the fact that humans are quite scary by default, so I'm sure we can sort something out. Call me.

Miloje


“Dearest, speak to us, dearest.”
“Yes, speak to us. The lies will fester and their humours will ferment”
“Speak to us.”
“Speak, dearest.”
“Your lies hurt us, but we will still help you.”
Miloje could not open his eyes. He could not bring his hands up to feel them, though he knew they would be raw and taught. His ear was gone and had shut from the humours escaping. The lies were preventing him from hearing the truth, the priests were right, and they crowded around his good and still faithful ear.
“There is time… to make things right… Tell us and free yourself from this burden.”
             “…still time”
                                   “…why do you hurt us?”
They couldn’t save him, he no longer knew any truths.

Stars

Dmitar had been dreaming again. Out his window he could still see the Palace Gigantic in the moonlight, outlined as a starless darkness against the speckled night sky. Laying there he often imagined it as a great gorge in the stars, a spreading crack that kept its own constellations of priests going from window to window with their tallow buckets announcing the dead. They sang about his parents. About their crimes and their admissions, whispered to the Turgohl through scabbed lips. They disgusted him but he couldn’t stop himself from missing them as he sat wrapped in his burlap blanket blinking back sleep.


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I write little things while I do tedious editing. I think I'll be posting them so I can look back over them as time goes on.

A Churlish Disregard for Decency

Ahoy you gorbellied, bat-fowling strumpets! I found a collection of Shakespearean insults today and thought "What a marvellous d100 table they would make". So I slapped some numbers on the side and made one. Roll once on each column for instant classy comebacks.


01-02
Artless
Base-court
Apple-john
03-04
Bawdy
Bat-fowling
Baggage
05-06
Beslubbering
Beef-witted
Barnacle
07-08
Bootless
Beetle-headed
Bladder
09-10
Churlish
Boil-brained
Boar-pig
11-12
Cockered
Clapper-clawed
Bugbear
13-14
Clouted
Clay-brained
Bum-bailey
15-16
Craven
Common-kissing
Canker-blossom
17-18
Currish
Crook-pated
Clack-dish
19-20
Dankish
Dismal-dreaming
Clotpole
21-22
Dissembling
Dizzy-eyed
Coxcomb
23-24
Droning
Doghearted
Codpiece
25-26
Errant
Dread-bolted
Death-token
27-28
Fawning
Earth-vexing
Dewberry
29-30
Fobbing
Elf-skinned
Flap-dragon
31-32
Froward
Fat-kidneyed
Flax-wrench
33-34
Frothy
Fen-sucked
Flirt-gill
35-36
Gleeking
Flap-mouther
Foot-licker
37-38
Goatish
Fly-bitten
Fustliarian
39-40
Gorbellied
Folly-fallen
Giglet
41-42
Impertinent
Fool-born
Gudgeon
43-44
Infectious
Full-gorged
Haggard
45-46
Jarring
Guts-griping
Harpy
47-48
Loggerheaded
Half-Faced
Hedge-pig
49-50
Lumpish
Hasty-witted
Horn-beast
51-52
Mammering
Hedge-born
Hugger-mugger
53-54
Mangled
Hell-hated
Joithead
55-56
Mewling
Idle-headed
Lewdster
57-58
Paunchy
Ill-breeding
Lout
59-60
Pribbling
Ill-nurtured
Maggot-pie
61-62
Puking
Knotty-pated
Malt-worm
63-64
Puny
Milk-livered
Mammet
65-66
Qualling
Motley-minded
Measle
67-68
Rank
Onion-eyed
Minnow
69-70
Reeky
Plume-plucked
Miscreant
71-72
Roguish
Pottle-deep
Moldwarp
73-74
Ruttish
Pox-marked
Mumble-news
75-76
Saucy
Reeling-ripe
Nut-hook
77-78
Spleeny
Rough-hewn
Pigeon-egg
79-80
Spongy
Rude-growing
Pignut
81-82
Surly
Rump-fed
Puttock
83-84
Tottering
Shard-borne
Pumpion
85-86
Unmuzzled
Sheep-biting
Ratsbane
87-88
Vain
Spur-galled
Scut
89-90
Venomed
Swag-bellied
Skainsmate
91-92
Villainous
Tardy-gaited
Strumpet
93-94
Warped
Tickle-brained
Varlot
95-96
Wayward
Toad-spotted
Vassal
97-98
Weedy
Unchin-shouted
Whey-face
99-100
Yeasty
Weather-bitten
Wagtail


May all your games be ruder for it.