Author: bensidorenko
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scene where only one person made it to the writing workshop
INT. EMPTY CLASSROOM – NIGHT Scene opens with circle of desks in a dim classroom. Only one of the chairs is occupied. Countless sheets of paper, stuffed with text, litter the ground. The writer clears his throat and begins to speak, apparently to himself. No one else is present to disagree. ME (TO HIMSELF): It’s…
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scene where we see the before
let me stick my hand in the damn blender if I want to. I used to be flaming swords and nighttime drives with the windows down and lungs full of spiteful happiness. a temple to a god that can still get it up. the city still blotted out the stars but at least the void…
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unseen, unheard, untouched
When I wake, I am lying on the ground, caked in cold mud. My teeth are slick with my own blood. The sky is painted black above me, carefully starless and unglittering. Fireflies flutter around me, each of them dying in puffs of flame that consume them like the flick of a lighter. Their wretched…
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Marchbeast
March snaps Its jaw at me like It always does, more hungry than grateful for another meeting. again, all It wants is a year where i don’t knock on the door. or a year where It tears out my throat. but Its teeth find only dew and too many hours in the sunlight, a new…
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messiah
i tried out to be the next messiah / but they said I had to believe in something / i’ve only been carving stakes out of dogwood / twisting mistletoe in arrows / no one comes to my sermons / since I can’t turn water to wine / my rapture is a bloody one /…
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