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Inner Workings of an Insomniac - Brianna Childres
Inner Workings of an Insomniac
Copyright © 2014 Brianna Childres
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-1-312-27583-6
DEDICATION
For those who loved me enough to support my dreams and those who didn’t and made them all the easier to reach…
This is for you.
Contents
Eventide
A Beautiful Day
Feces Occurs
Ordinary
Our Home
Something in the Way
This is for you, love
Vesper Bell
Easier than Breathing
Forever and On, My Friend
Listen
Modern Day Rapunzel
Roller Coaster Ride
Nightfall
Buried Alive
In Case of Zombie Attack
Mona
Mr. Jameson
Wasting Time
Moonrise
Faceless People
High Above Me
Moonlit Lullaby
Run-in with the Beast
Shallow People
Witching Hour
3 a.m.
A Star that Breathes
Abyss
Danger of Hope
Defeated Again
Dead of Night
Away
Coffee Shoppe
Dream of a Dream
My Face is a Waterfall
Opposite
Strikes Again
Morning Tide
A Moment
And so it began…
Fairy Tale Lives
Pocketbook
Remember When
Where I’m From
Eventide
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odors. Flow forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond the mountains the dear one of my dreams!
Heinrich Heine
A Beautiful Day
The noise and bustle fills her ears: the strong gait of the patrolman’s horse, gleeful giggles of the children at play. Laughter lifts in the air to meet the loving chitter-chatter of the baby birds calling to their mothers. Cyclists whisk by, tires whirling, bells ringing. The heat of the sun’s beams warms the backs of all the passersby. Some walk past without so much as a second glance. Others stare, pitying her for not being able to enjoy this beautiful day. She smiles, knowing their thoughts. She sees the irony. They see more than she does, sure, but she can feel. She listens as they rush past, late for their next big moment. Sure, they see, but she sees too. She sees what they take for granted. She sees THIS moment, while all they do is run toward the next big thing. The sun smiles down on her cotton filled eyes. It is a beautiful day.
Feces Occurs
I tapped my foot impatiently as I stood at the end of the driveway. She was late, as usual. I really wasn’t surprised. Her car could barely make it to the end of the driveway, let alone to pick me up from school. I smiled as I thought of her car: a 2002 limited edition Chevy Camaro. She named it Lady, after the Styx song. It was supposed to be white, but the dirt roads usually left it more of a sand color. The sticker on the back read feces occur.
The matter-of-fact tone of it matched Mel perfectly. At that moment,
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