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All The Words That I Know
Rated R | 7KB
"and the way the rain comes down hard/that’s how i feel inside . . .”
The Importance Of Knowing
Rated R | 3KB
She knows: She isn't a fairy tale, won't ever want one; regardless, will always struggle with a definition of what they are.
The Luckiest
Rated R | 15KB
And she’s nothing but a star on stage.
Another Feminist
Rated PG | 13KB
"I can't get over California."
Disco Ball Heart
Rated PG-13 | 6K
I got me a disco ball heart/Guess I should grow out of this/Before it's too late. - Edie Carey
ANGIE
Buried Treasure
Rated PG | 11KB
The world spins on and so does she.
Retina Burn (with Penelopody)
Rated R | 53K
That summer, this thing, this unending catastrophic thing, began.
Collapse
Rated R | 29K
She fell into this.
Leaving Fingerprints
Rated R | 21K
"Every time you feel wonderful, baby, I feel bad." - Magnetic Fields
Little Things
Rated R | 5K
"We only fuck when we're drunk."
Not Happy
Rated R | 2K
There is an ending, somewhere, in all this.
Everything They've Ever Said About New York City Is A Lie
Rated R | 5KB
She leaves him a hundred times in her head, a hundred times, easily.
We Are Not Perfect
Rated G | 8KB
You used to believe in second chances.
Days In Between
Rated PG | 25K
Who knew they could screw up on such a grand scale?
Invidious
Rated G | 5K
"We could be very sensible here," she said, and he agreed.
Rub Until It Bleeds
Rated NC-17 | 6K
She is coccooning, building up walls.
When The Earth Moves
Rated PG-13 | 33K
It's all over bar the shouting.
Words Beneath
Rated NC-17 | 7K
His voice in her head. His argument, her response, her argument his response.
CHARLOTTE UNSWORTH
Scribbling
by Rated PG | 4KB
She doesn't know if he writes for fun anymore.
All That Never Happens
Rated PG-13 | 6K
She looked into the glass, liquid surface showing that they were melding.
Bliss Of Another Kind
Rated R | 7K
What it means to be made for you.
Ultraviolet
Rated R | 3K
Baby, baby, baby, light my way.
Insubstantial Pageant
Rated PG-13 | 35K
In the aftermath of his divorce Toby seeks out someone he hasn't seen in such a time that back then he still loved his wife.
My Back Pages
Rated R | 47KB
"Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now." It's his book launch, and their picture's in the paper.
The Book, When He Wrote It
Rated G | 3K
It was not about human suffering, was not about loss, or falling out of love.
Cuando Tú Conoces
Rated R | 14K
The truth is inbetween the first and the fortieth drink.
Never Too Clean
Rated R | 11K
She wakes up in his shower.
Little Girl
Rated R | 11K
Much later, she said, "I could've done this in California."
Aleph-Tav
Rated PG-13 | 39KB
If he could find the right words, maybe he would use them, but he's spent the better part of a decade and worked his way through several languages and he hasn't found them yet.
Cadence Of The Hours Before Dawn
Rated PG-13 | 20KB
The easy mistake to make, he realizes, is to think that she broke when they left the White House. She didn't. She'd been disintegrating for years.
One Drink Too Many, and a Joke Gone Too Far
Rated PG-13 | 3KB
It's the small deceptions.
The Space Taken Up By Silence
Rated PG-13 | 4KB
She closes her ears.
Flight Path
Rated PG | 29K
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water.
Where No Sun Shines
Rated PG-13 | 6K
And the silent night will shatter from the sounds inside my mind.
Unthrown Punches
Rated PG-13 | 17K
We are trying to be more than our ghosts.
Number The Days
Rated PG-13 | 7K
"You don't know what day it is." He smiles a little and puffs on his cigar.
Taking Notice
Rated PG | 4K
This, she thinks, is the good part.
Athenaeum
Rated PG-13 | 8KB
We wear our lives on our skin.
Shades Of
Rated R | 14KB
She needs to be somewhere else. A place where she's the professional.
Sunset
Rated PG-13 | 5K
The sin and this mess we're in. The city sun sets over me.
On The Seventh Day
Rated R | 3K
Nothing happens on Sundays.
Breathing
Rated R | 89K
Breathing the fallout in.
The First One Hundred Days
Rated R (language) | 97K
We'll fix it in post.
Gone Without Leaving
Rated R | 35K
The dance depends on the distance between us.
Life's Rich Pageant
Rated G | 8K
We are young, despite the years.
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Rated R | 17K
No matter how we breathe, or count our breaths.
Revelation
Rated R | 53K
Though there is no cure, he seeks one.
The World In Solemn Stillness
Rated R | 32KB
He can almost see it, this future full of give and take.
The War Against Silence
Rated R | 69KB
In the end, of course, a true war story is never about war.
Green on Gray
Rated PG-13 | 24K
This is the solstice, when his world is most out of balance.
Tacet I: Night
Rated PG | 9KB
"Tomorrow she will belong to the cameras, to a nation that will think it's a shame someone died and then go back to their breakfasts."
Out Here On The Border
Rated R | 18K
"Out here on the border, ain't nobody asking questions/No, I don't need a miracle, but I could use a push in the right direction."
Nothing Until Now
Rated R | 3KB
Solutions aren't found.
And Maybe Alcoholics
Rated R | 18KB
She's good in bed, and it's far from a secret.
Ebonized
Rated PG-13 | 5KB
He bled his parentheses underneath her nails, her movements setting the rhythm and rhymes of his verse.
Something About The Open Road
Rated PG-13 | 25KB
You can never be lost if you don’t know where you’re going.
Mall
Rated G | 3K
The kid caught his eye, and he knew he was screwed.
Ebenezer
Rated PG-13 | 15K
This, then, is the place where she stands
It's A Long Way Down
Rated R | 11KB
No one says goodbye any more.
Retina Burn (with August)
Rated R | 53K
That summer, this thing, this unending catastrophic thing, began.
The Same Day Every Year
Rated R | 8KB
She was expecting him.
Cliché
Rated PG | 12K
New and old ways to say the same thing.
Parallax
Rated PG | 12K
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
Atonement
Rated PG-13 | 9KB
She has to pretend it isn't bothering her the way it is.
Seven Years
Rated PG-13 | 7K
He has seven years on CJ, and it took her seven years to get over that.
Bills, Postcards, Marriage
Rated PG-13 | 10K
They were married, once.
L.A. Donut Day
Rated G | 3KB
Donuts leave a sugary trail
Tinseltown In The Rain
Rated PG-13 | 5KB
She thinks that when the road forks she'll take the turn that feels the least familiar and just drive on.
The Third Day
Rated PG-13 | 11K
Their thing was, of course, never going to work.
Starved For A Look
Rated PG-13 | 6K
Between them, they'd accumulated enough kinky sex to last them a lifetime.
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