Stories tagged “self-image”
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Girl Noses
I like this girl’s nose. It’s kinda-sorta bulbous at the end. Starts poking up at the middle of the bridge, and practically curves upward at the tip. It’s just a little bit too big. But it works, damnit. It seems to point at the place...
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Mirror, Mirror, in My Hand... [poem]
There is a standard set up for me Everyone says “that’s what you should be” But I don’t want to be perfect Fake, pretend – it isn’t worth it I want to be free, to make my own pretends We’re all who we are, who ...
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The Mirror
There is a girl, carrying a mirror down to her basement. She isn’t going to look at it, she hardly ever does; she never likes what she sees in it anyway. Its enormously heavy, the gilded, full length, reflective behemoth. Its glass pieces are scr...
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The Fading Masquerade
A flower without water Is clearly going to die No matter how much trouble Tears will not fall from my eyes The petals of the bloom are bruised The flower is forgotten She is left quite alone The colors there are haunted No matter how hard I press, or h...