Bride of Sound

Joined January 2021

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I like to watch horror movies & hallmark, & play pool. Favorite books- The Martian Chronicles & Watership Down. Favorite poet- Sylvia Plath.

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The Valentine’s Feast
Corinne arrived at 8 p.m. sharp with her wicker picnic basket. She spread her patchwork quilt across the frozen ground, sat down cross-legged, and began to unload the contents of the basket onto the quilt between them.
By Bride of Sound4 days ago in Fiction
Pill Rainbow
On Monday, Eat Red to kill tiny people in your head take double for good measure, then go back to sleep the little voices will protest,
By Bride of Sound6 days ago in Poets
Wake Up
Today is December 4th, the year 2006 I am parked on the covered bridge. It’s nighttime, the bridge lights are out. My car lights fail to come on. In the blackness, I can barely see. Only a few feet ahead and behind. Billie Holiday’s voice crackles through the radio.
By Bride of Sound8 days ago in Fiction
Fall Fest!. Runner-Up in Mismatch Challenge. Content Warning.
“Carrie! You’re 15 minutes late!” exclaimed Patrick, Bridget’s fervently obedient assistant. “What happened? You look like the backside of a couch cushion.”
By Bride of Sound12 days ago in Fiction
The Parrot
This bird cannot love you Although She will screech when you come home She is a creature of comfort— Designed to mirror your energy
By Bride of Sound15 days ago in Poets
Wounded Animals. Content Warning.
“Sun’s coming up. Go on, get to it.” “Please… I don’t wanna.” “If I gotta call yer big brothers out here, they’ve got chores enough as it is. Littl’ Asher’s comin’ up soft as you anyhow. He don’t need to see this.”
By Bride of Sound20 days ago in Humans
Nightmare Navigation
Dressing room maze. Where is the exit? Room ✇- bad man, mirror mannequin. He’s looking into the mirror and through me. Keep moving. Lost. Lost. I wish this was a dream. This is a dream. Why can’t I get this tag off my wrist? Black tag. Call ⧫⌘⌘. “Hello?” Static, mumble. “Hello?” Don’t call here again. Keep moving. Shit- Room ◉ again. Stop. Stifled breaths. Choking. Gurgling. Wake up!
By Bride of Sound27 days ago in Fiction
Winter’s Thaw
pickled berry toes sting when the water dresses thaw before unfurl
By Bride of Soundabout a month ago in Poets
Pill Winter
pill winter- fires burning holes in my pocket fuel the labyrinth
By Bride of Soundabout a month ago in Poets
Instructions on How to-. Content Warning.
You coveted me for months— an eternity in tides, extracting each grain of sand from under my fingernails. Enamored by my skin—
By Bride of Sound6 months ago in Poets
I Never Told You
I’ve felt a pattern in my life, I forget and I’m reminded Someone else’s first, sooner I liked you even more, You changed from something I want, to a need, to a chore
By Bride of Sound7 months ago in Poets
Checking In. Honorable Mention in Things You Can’t Say Out Loud Challenge. Content Warning.
When I call to check in after days of avoiding— your silence, frustration, the cathedral of agony— you might answer: I’m hanging in there,
By Bride of Sound7 months ago in Poets

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The Valentine’s Feast

Pill Rainbow

Wake Up

Fall Fest!. Runner-Up in Mismatch Challenge. Content Warning.

The Parrot

Wounded Animals. Content Warning.

Nightmare Navigation

Winter’s Thaw

Pill Winter

Instructions on How to-. Content Warning.

I Never Told You

Checking In. Honorable Mention in Things You Can’t Say Out Loud Challenge. Content Warning.

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