The nightmares are coming, my child, and you should be afraid. They come suddenly, and silently, and swiftly. They steal you away, submerging you in their sinister slights.
The nightmares are coming, my dear, and these you should fear. They'll carry you away, cripple your mind and crush your will. And you can't escape their claw-strewn clutches.
The nightmares are coming, little one, and you really should run. They come with intent to kill and clamber towards you. Crying won't save you, nor calling, nor keening. You can try to crawl away, but do not doubt that they will catch you.
Beware the nightmares, my child. For now, they come. Heed m
I Want My Name to Stop Bleeding by wickedlysecret, literature
Literature
I Want My Name to Stop Bleeding
I want my name to stop bleeding.
It won't.
It just keeps gushing blood, every time I look at it.
It never ends. It drips the blood,
oozing it from every pore of its essence.
The puddle underneath is running every which way,
small rivers of blood flowing out and away from their source.
My name grows paler every day,
losing its life, losing its meaning,
losing itself.
I fear soon my name will cease to exist;
just hovering there will be the empty shell it once filled.
Please,
make it stop.
Make the bleeding end.
Lie, Lie, Lie. All he does is Lie. All she does, all they do, all we do is Lie. Lies everywhere, everywhere. When don't we lie? When is honesty really important? lie, lie, lie. What happens when we lie? How do we lie? Why do we lie? Lie, lie, lie, lie. Lies everywhere. When, who, what, why, lie, lie, lie. Lying kills, lying hurts, lying, lying, lying saves, lying cures, lying, lying, lying. When do we lie? lie, lie, lie. lie. lie. We lie. Because. There's no reason. We make up the reasons. We lie to ourselves so that we can lie to others. lie, lie, lie. lying is nonsensical. lying tries, lying itches, lying dies. lying keeps growing and shrin
The United States of ANIMErica by wickedlysecret, literature
Literature
The United States of ANIMErica
Everyone can name at least one Japanese anime or manga that exists, be it something widely known, such as Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Speed Racer, or Astro Boy; or something known more among those who are better versed in the different titles, like Beast Master or Hetalia: Axis Powers. Wendy Goldberg, PhD candidate in English at the University of Connecticut, says in her essay "The Manga Phenomenon in America" that anime and its relative, manga, are things that have been drifting across America since the late 1980s and the early 1990s; although, the titles that came here during that time did not do spectacularly well in comic and the very few