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dennis lehane

Journal Entry: Wed Mar 14, 2012, 1:49 PM
  • Mood: Anxious
her belly springs a leak and the liquid flows through his hands.
"i'm bones in a box, teddy."


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this is becoming one of my most beloved books. i just want to shove it in my heart so i'll have it forever; the words always there, never lost.

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who is your favorite author?

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features:

the problem of evilHe fills his fingers with my skin.

You're quiet today, he says.

I do not tell him. I don't lift my eyes like the breasts of angels in churches. I do not tell him—I am learning to accept the end of the world.

He pricks the back of my hand, and I bend forward, my forehead against my knees. I think about names and I wonder if I were to whisper the name of a long-dead mother, a hospitalized father, a brother in denial, a sister without her hair, a dog leaning on two stubby arms and a cat with her tail wrapped inside her mouth, a baby choking on the roots of life and a girl battling her Adams' apple—I wonder if I could save them, my m

pretty boys break hearts.sometimes I think I’m just a mess of badly drawn lines. I’m just scrawled veins beneath paper rough skin, I wear poorly sketched scars on my thighs [skin deep red pen lines] and even my smile is lop-sided- but he never seemed to notice.

my skin [spread like thick icing over my skeleton] is a monotonous pattern of pores, a stretch of the world the sun never kissed. I can’t see the beauty in multitudes of freckles and chipped fingernails- but he does.

‘why do you love me?’

‘you make me happy.’

I never could figure out just how. was it my illegible love notes, or the tiny hearts I drew into his bare back wi

Dystopiaif i have to go back
to that one-legged shack
with the cricks and the crack
in the wall,

i'll snap the guy's waist
who declared it chaste
'to have never loved at all'.

behind the greenhousebees thrust against nothing while dying,
little girls watch and glow with arousal.
they stay outside in the cold until numb,
waiting for someone to call them in.
hiding behind the greenhouse for hours,
mantis-still, wondering if they're forgotten.
throbbing and watching the bees die.

maritalit was a black tie affair
and of course she wore white;

her lace façade

in the red light city.

he was drunk,
and slurred promises;

i love you

but
these blunt words
and misplaced romance

was lost, somewhere between

radio static
and momentary vows.



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:iconcobretticallahan:
I really like Dennis Lehane's works. He is my favorite Boston-based author. I wrote a story called The Runaway that was inspired by Lehane's works. Mainly Gone Baby Gone. But I guess my favorite author is Michael Connelly who led me to Lehane. His series about Harry Bosch is one of the best. Just full of a tortured background and a lot of heartbreak and turmoil throughout the books. He is the silhouette looking over Los Angeles from his house on the hills. I wish there was a detective like Bosch but set in Boston.
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:iconbackuppanic:
I read a lot more science and philosophy texts than actual works of fiction, so I'm probably not going to shock you when I say Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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:iconkaitforest:
oh god, sir arthur conan doyle is a wonderful writer/story teller. he is an inspiration. i plan to go to school for medicine, too, so he gives me hope that i will still have time to write wonderful stories.
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:iconbackuppanic:
You damn well better make time, as I'd hate to not have you in my inbox anymore.
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:iconbreezybrutality:
~breezybrutality Mar 15, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I love your features! They give me a chance to see the great artists on DA without having to scrounge around the crap that's on here.
And of course you always have the best taste in artists ;)
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:iconkaitforest:
oh! thank you!
i am usually always scavenging for artist, i feel like nothing helps me improve more than inspiration. i am glad you like them! :)
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:iconbreezybrutality:
~breezybrutality Mar 15, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Me either! On the inspiration thing. :)
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