Note to self: when writing kids/teens, please remember how easily you accepted inconsistencies in yourself as long as each accepted belief was founded in an emotion or need. Don't chase ideological consistency for a character, chase emotional consistency.
He found the key in a #vintage shop among it's brethren.
"How much for this?"
"20 for the box of them."
"And just one?"
"Then 30."
"30!?"
"It's a set!"
Later he dumped the box on his bed. There! That one.
The side of the wooden piano key glinted with invisible ink.
#vss365a
There's a feel to black,
a press to the night,
an intent in lack
in the out of sight.
No one knows nothing
by color or shape,
but when it's brushing
up against your nape
the void has presence,
a quivering glow.
A monster's essence,
when felt, you will know.
#amwriting#poetry
#MustBeAnIntrovert if, even though you feel perfectly satisfied with the state of things, you can't think of a good answer to "what did you do this weekend".
He named her #Midnight. They met the night he killed a man.
Her saddle hung under her belly, her reins twisted at her neck, and sweat glinted on her heaving sides. Her last rider lay trampled before her bloodied hooves, and in her eyes the outlaw saw freedom.
#vss365a#vss365
In case you missed it: Today, we paid homage to our ‘human computers’ who calculated the trajectories BY HAND that launched astronauts into orbit. Take a stroll along #HiddenFigures Way: https://t.co/zv6x8Qzoo1