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The Mirror Crack'd by orphicfiddler, literature

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The Mirror Crack'd

Queen, queen of the snow bee flakes Got away in a day Where the old sea quakes. With a rush and a flush in her milk-white cheeks, Stole away in her sleigh To the vitreous lakes. Kai, Kai with the mirror in his eye, Saw the Pearl in her fur Through a shard and a lie. With a huff and rebuff of his childhood hearth, Set a-stir by her lure, He clung to her thigh. Girl, girl all alone in the pale, Set aside as a bride But betrayed by her veil. With a sob and a throb of her soft, red heart, To abide where they hide, She traversed his trail. Death, Death in the blood-red sledge Followed close on their toes A precipitous ledge, While the bride, ca

The Glowing Child by orphicfiddler, literature

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The Glowing Child

“Did I see you in the streets, perhaps, in a winter long ago?” asked the man with the rumpled hair, his cane clutched close, his eyes squinched tight in myopic contemplation. “Perhaps,” the girl echoed, taking him by the hand. “That is not imperative for you to know, though, so I would suggest simply forgetting it.” Impertinent girl, he thought, but quite possibly not. Quite possibly not a girl, he meant, not that there was any doubt she was impertinent. The creature, indeed, was all too white and fluttery to be much of anything customarily called human, and rather too small in his opinion to be so blithe

Sugar by orphicfiddler, literature

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Sugar

Sometimes I think my mother took thalidomide, Except the phocomelia struck my heart and not my limbs; My hands, left all too capable, too strong perhaps For one without two ventricles, or even one. But that is not to say that monsters can’t be angels, Angels monsters. My mercy is as heaven’s: by the coin, One transient side to each unwanted fate, for no one Is of saccharine, through and through.

The Rat King: An Introduction by orphicfiddler, literature

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The Rat King: An Introduction

To those that remain after the horde Spills through and picks your ragged meat-hooks clean— To those, I say: Let not the sharpness of my teeth Prove daunting, for your eyes are sharper still And make me blush. Let not the pallor of my skull Deter you, for had I any hairs upon my pate You’d pluck them dry. Yours are the mouths that shape my words, The claws that pull my collar towards you. You are the Makers now And I am that which you have fashioned, Milky-white excrescence of the manifold mind, Pearlescent horror. There was a Savior once, but Your gods ate him, and Sunday after Sunday consume Him still, as rats will do.

Ozymandias by orphicfiddler, literature

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Ozymandias

July 3, 1928 The excavation commenced this morning. Max claims we'll have this temple untucked before next October, but I know he's being excessively optimistic for Arthur's sake. Still, who'd suppose we could even manage this far without bumbling ourselves into a cataract? I rode on a camel for the first time only a month ago, and the beast didn't even bite me. I'd say that's success already. July 4 Bloody hot. Why'd we go in summer again? July 6 We've got some sort of corner showing through. Can't determine yet whether it's from the point of a pyramid-like object, or the corner of a more rectangular sort. Odd angle. I suppose centurie

They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait by orphicfiddler, literature

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

I don't know when we first went underground. I don't even know if it was one mass exodus, a swarm of mankind trickling through the earth's crust so vehement we carved our own caverns by the force of trampling feet, or whether it was a gradual process, perhaps even a repetitive one, a family here, a neighborhood there. For all I know, the echo of the damp subterranean machine has always reverberated off the cave walls, created long past by the Angels, who think of our well-being even while they shake their heads helplessly at our flaws. They say that those who remained on the surface were raptured away in a great flash of light, like a millio

III. A Veil, Darkly by orphicfiddler, literature

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III. A Veil, Darkly

He looks so tired. I want to sweep my hand across his eyes, as people do for the dead in movies, gracefully lowering his lids with my palm to give him peace. But he is alive, and I am the one who is not. It's a dinner, I gather, that keeps him up at night. A dinner for the ballet. He always was obsessive with his job, a right Diaghilev, though much kinder - no angry impresario, tapping his cane upon the floor to mark his displeasure. His is a more heartfelt lament, a downcast blue eye, a sigh of disappointment. The ballerinas stop their tapping at once and huddle, cooing like doves with concern for what they've done wrong, how can they impro

II. Patty-Cake by orphicfiddler, literature

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II. Patty-Cake

Jack is back, but he doesn't say anything, which is no surprise really, and so very Jack of him. I pretend I'm frosting something, even though this cake already has more peach-colored roses on it than I have flower nails. I sure hope the Patels like sugar comas. He hauls a bag of onion bagels up to the register, and Maggie rings them up, but he stares at me the entire time with those die-for blue eyes, limbal rings black like an inverse corona. God, he's beautiful. But a prick. Totally. Always was. I remember when I wrote a sonnet for him at fifteen, and he set fire to it on my front lawn and walked away, smearing mud and ash across the sid

I. Stopwatch Jack by orphicfiddler, literature

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I. Stopwatch Jack

"I don't want to go home," I tell her. She cocks her head at me like she's looking at some sad pigeon that just fell down on the sidewalk in front of her, only it's not just any pigeon, it's one she knows and goes to lunch with every afternoon. But she doesn't really care, she just wants to know if it has the plague or not, because she's worried it might be catching. "And why not, Alex?" she asks calmly. "Are you worried about your father?" "I mean, of course I'm worried about him. But I don't see how that would stop me from going home. He needs me after Mum's passing and all. Why would that stop me?" "Maybe you think he'll be distant. Th

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The Rat King: An Introduction by orphicfiddler, literature

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The Rat King: An Introduction

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait by orphicfiddler, literature

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

III. A Veil, Darkly by orphicfiddler, literature

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Throwback Thursday #14 by HugQueen, journal

Throwback Thursday #14

May 4, 2017

This is the 14th installment of Throwback Thursday with CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature)! Every Thursday we'll share a new collection of retro goodies just for you! DDs Strike Back Reuse The Resource Phantom Prompts Forum Challenge- A story with no characters! The Literature Gallery Awakens This week, other years. Throwback Questions Who have you known the longest on the site? Do you still talk? Do you have an old piece you wrote that makes you go "Wow, I actually wrote that?!" Most cringe-worthy sentence and/or line you've written? Got Memories? Note CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature) with your suggestions! We feature works that are at least two years old. If you missed the

Long-Distance by niedec, literature

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Long-Distance

The finest poem that I could write is not of tongues, or lips, or hair, or what I hope we do tonight, nor how your name hangs in the air. No, the finest poem that I could write is really quite a selfish one: whatever thoughts could keep me whole, when half of me, for now, is gone. The words themselves are lyrical, yet simple, as most mantras are, to cling as near to me as life, when half my life has gone afar. And in it, should contain each thought, and feeling, rationed bit by bit, into what's only best described as a Human Being Survival Kit. I love you now, and always have-- until my death, I always will, and legacy, if kept intact, wi

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The Lorelei by orphicfiddler, visual art

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait by orphicfiddler, literature

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

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Feb 19, 1989
United States
Deviant for 16 years
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Location: Seattle, WA

Education: BA in Psychology and English Literature

Profession: Research lady. Not-so-starving artist. Weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

Contact: orphicfiddler@gmail.com

Favourite Visual Artist

Sandro Botticelli, Molly Crabapple, Salvador Dali, Victoria Frances, Brian Froud, Alphonse Mucha, Arthur Rackham, Guido Reni

Favourite Movies

Amadeus, American Beauty, American Psycho, Angels in America, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Cemetery Man, Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, Hausu, Interview with the Vampire, King of Hearts, Mulholland Dr., Perfume, The Red Violin, Requiem for a Dream

Favourite TV Shows

Archer, Charmed, The Colbert Report, Dexter, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Firefly, Futurama, Heroes, House, Invader Zim, The IT Crowd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, Sherlock, Silf & Olly, Skins, South Park, That '70s Show

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Nightwish, Alkaline Trio, Amanda Palmer, The Cranberries, Deine Lakaien, The Dresden Dolls, Elliott Smith, Emilie Autumn, Iron Maiden, Loreena McKennitt, Nick Cave, Nostalghia, Sarah Brightman, The Smiths, Soap&Skin, They Might Be Giants, Warren Zevon

Favourite Books

House of Leaves, Aye, and Gomorrah, The Gargoyle, His Dark Materials, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Man Who Laughs, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Prozac Nation, The Red and the Black, Scaramouche, Venus in Furs

Favourite Writers

Joseph Conrad, Mark Z. Daniewski, Samuel R. Delany, Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, Bret Easton Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel García Márquez, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, Chuck Palahniuk, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Anne Rice, Saki

Favourite Games

American McGee's Alice, Bioshock, Eternal Darkness, Monkey Island, Myst, Sam & Max, The Witcher, Zelda

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Anything at hand, but most likely pens, pencils, acrylic paint and/or scratchboard

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Art, writing, music, clinical psychology

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orphicfiddler

Apr 23, 2013

I'm compiling a book of short stories and a novella for publication on Amazon. Should I include some poems along with all that prose?

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Yessir.

NO.

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orphicfiddler

Jan 28, 2013

BBC Book Meme

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Stolen brazenly from the journals of =Lucy-Merriman and ThornyEnglishRose. You're supposed to bold the books you've read entirely and italicize those that you've read partially.  According to the BBC, most people have only read six of these. Mostly what this list reveals is that I have a reading problem, which I already knew, because I regularly forget to complete everyday tasks or eat or be social because I'd rather finish whatever pile of books I've dragged home from the library this week. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling

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Jan 5, 2013

Happy New-ish Year!

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Hello my dear minions! *ahem* I mean, free-willed individuals and friends. Life has been busy, but not really as busy as it ought to have been to justify not really doing anything on dA for months and months. And by busy, I really only mean long staring attempts at writing things that still aren't completed yet, and bouts of watching films while drawing that really just turned into bouts of watching films and then hasty last-minute drawing. I am horrid at finishing. Anyway, I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas, a drunken debauch of a New Year's, and a lovely, lively life this January. I'm going to try to be more around, submit things now

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scarletwave

Feb 19, 2019

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU!!!!

HugQueen

May 30, 2017

Glad to see you still lurk from time to time. ♥

jes6ica

Feb 17, 2016

Your writing is excellent. I'm wondering whether you'd be interested in submitting They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait or another story to an anthology I'm putting together. For more information, please visit www.jayhenge.com.