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The Drowned Watch ARC applications for Raptoraem: Book I are now live in the Media Vault for members of the Contraband Network.
So if you’d like first dibs before the form opens to the general public, consider this your politely ominous invitation to join the Network and come in through the side door.
Small print from your local smuggling operation: applying does not guarantee selection. It does give Contraband members early access to apply before public signups open.
If you’d like to read Book I early and help usher this foul little enterprise into the world, the form is in the Vault.
Begin your descent:
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MEMORY OF A PROMISE
I still think of you.
You somehow became more real
As you faded slowly in flesh and blood.
Distance did not take you far
Like a trail it brought you back
In a loop.
You somehow became more real
Real , just as I had once needed you to be.
I make you smile and look at me
The way I wanted you to then,
I can picture you as the lover I wanted
To see.
My eyes see with my mind
What they longed to see
When you forgot to look at me.
In my mind you are just as I had thought
You to be.
I listen to songs
From our time together
They seem sweeter now,
Like fulfillment.
They don't have the ache of heartbreak
Like they did when we heard them together
Lost in our own little worlds
Doors shut to each other.
I like the songs more
I don't cry as I hear them now
There is a stillness of coming home
In these memories of us
As if the lights are on
And you are silhouetted by the window.
The cigarette smoke
Beckoning me
As a warm hearth would
On a cold day.
I see you in my mind
Just as you had promised
Once you would be, to me.
I told myself to forget that promise
The day I walked away.
I wiped out the clouds from my sky
So the sunshine of my own magic
Could recreate you
And turn you into a permanent
Dawn scattered upon
my lonely firmament.
.
.
a recent @guardian cartoon
No one has opened this book yet. Its pages wait—silent, untouched, like a mirror that does not reveal until you dare to face it.
Seen is not just a story. It is an encounter. It asks what happens when desire doesn’t turn away— but holds your gaze.
Be the first to look. (Link)
My sweet corner