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Oct. 6th, 2009 02:46 pm
witticaster: (dressed for a funeral)
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Consider it kismet, perhaps, or an aligning of the planets in some esoteric pattern. Call it the luck of a well-placed wish, made on a falling star, a plucked eyelash, or a digital clock burning 11:11 into the darkness. God's work, the devil's work, the work of some amorphous personification of the fates--

It doesn't matter how you parse it. Something has happened, and it has come about in such a complicated turn of events that the only way for most people to accept its occurrence is in calling it chance.

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what the fuck am I supposed to do with this? I don't even know. as a bonus, two small writing-y things from oneword.com originally--you know, the site where they give you a word and a minute, and in return, you type? they aren't good, but I feel like holding onto them anyway.


apron
She wore it every day that she cooked, a yellow apron with faded blue patches with a design of white sprigs of flowers on them. I held it after she died, and it was cold; I couldn't remember what had once been for a moment, unable to recall her face, her smell, her voice.

For the first time since her eyes closed, I wept.

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chase

"I can't do this right now," she said. "I just--I can't."

It was the same old story, the inability to commit, the fear to touch me. I held my breath, hoping she'd speak again, changing her mind, and knowing she wouldn't.