Building Voices

A Spark in the Rain

Trigger Warning: This post deals with themes of mental illness, depression, addiction, and suicide. Please read with caution. I walked in the rain and sobbed into my hands, facing the problems of the night’s dusty sky and wondering when I will want to live again. Wadded tissues I pull from my pocket disintegrate under the drizzle of rain. The water I added to the night made me feel at one with something – even if it was sadness. My 2 AM stroll lasted as long as it took for old solutions to

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Mar
Nina's Sunflower

Only a few raindrops managed to drop onto her head before the chilled breeze drove her from the rickety balcony attached to the one-bedroom apartment in a long line of sad smut-covered tenements. To have ended up here, Nina thought to herself with cruel irony in her inner voice. She moved quickly, shutting the old glass sliding door with a rusty whelp and sending red-brown dust flying, spattering the once-white carpet with bloody galaxy patterns. “What would my Father say if he could see me

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Jun
Holiday at Ariadne

There was no need to set my sail or point my prow. I missed you, Elle, and I knew where to go to find you. The gold dust mote on the water would guide the way with a golden lead line. Our little island in the middle of Lake Ariadne drew me, tugging gently at the thread between our hearts. I pirated a riverboat at half past noon and drifted towards the golden speck in the distance. Waves churned querulously and gulls plunged into their depths, spearing fish with gallant precision. My stolen

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Jun
LSD and Flames

Enjoy the following excerpt from the book I'm writing. The passage is a rough draft and currently under construction. Chapter 3 Boomer sat at a wooden table across from Psyche, whose eyes reflected the flickering light cast by a tea candle. The club buzzed excitedly. Rare air passed between hexagonal tables and clusters of tightly coiled bodies. The atmosphere was heavy with humidity that seeped from warming corpses that spun in whirling ecstasy. City wide bans on intoxicating substances

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