jessewestend

Working on a new chapter of the novel... i like what i have so far because its cute...

August DeRicci .
Exposition

When my car pulled to her door she was staring at me like Sylvia Plath at the waters edge. Her fine, milk-white, New England skin shone like the surface of a moon's moon and I couldnt see an inch of it without thinking...
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Ok. Christ almighty what a weird, long shitty night...

here's the story in its entirety. mind the typos if they exist...

The Girl with Purple Hair
By Jesse Shipley
Cancer, a prelude.
Huxley was overwhelmed by the taste of her. Bare legs wrapped around his back as fierce, delicate hands pulled hard at his hair from behind. She was clawing at him savagely, as if...
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Huxley was overwhelmed by the taste of her. Bare legs wrapped around his back as fierce, delicate hands pulled hard at his hair from behind. She was clawing at him savagely, as if in anger; she clearly enjoyed it. She seemed almost to need it. He was lost in the moment. He could neither remember how it was he came to be here, or where...
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On a rack in a lonely diner sit fifty coffee cups in rows of five
in the middle rack, in the middle of the middle row,
sits the oldest cup in that lonely dive,
porcelain stained by caffeine dreams
it holds the echo of a million silent screams
tonight it occurred to me how many lips had met
its yellowed, off-white edge
never thinking of...
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I feel like the sadness welling up within me is the most beautiful thing in the world, the dreams and the flashes of memories; the melted faces and the blended words... all the tears and harshness and all the soft Dewey kisses... all the love I could punch into a wall is slicing its way out of my chest from the ribs out. From inside...
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what did i do on my first friday night off ever?

I went to waffle house and worked on my art because I would rather be alone than meet another girl.

And it was a good night. I Drew NIC, and ARLO, and a really rad drawing of me and my boy Jonez as zombies eating a marine and drinking beer from a keg.
EDITED...
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ok so.... if my figures are correct
it would appear that...
I'm going to Helloween.

the rest of this post has been deleted to keep me from thinking about or admitting to any of those feelings.
I've got to be free from all this..

1. i like looking at these drawings all day.
2. i got a new tattoo tonight.
3. the braves clinched their division for the 14th straight year. thats more than half my life. Atlanta is the anti-Boston, unlike the Sox fueled Riots seen in Bean town, Atlanta once again breathed a collective"eh" as their team did what it always did, even though they had like...
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