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this is a place to keep my writing and occasional word art. Writer and (high school) Student (I wandered, lonely as the night/until I found/a set of stars that guided me/from solitude into/your open arms/that shield me from the lights) book: The Second Law now for sale http://www.lulu.com/shop/alice-t-ridley/the-second-law/paperback/product-21933153.html My ask box is [OPEN]

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I will write about the following, leave one in my ask box.

Dear person I hate, Dear person I like, Dear ex boyfriend, Dear ex girlfriend, Dear ex bestfriend, Dear bestfriend, Dear *anyone*, Dear Santa, Dear mom, Dear dad, Dear future me, Dear past me, Dear person I’m jealous of, Dear person I had a crush on, Dear girlfriend, Dear boyfriend, Dear [insert URL here],

Dude this sounds fun

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I want to do these! I need a distraction from studying

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NB Club Interview

Introduce yourself to your fellow writers / artists in the community (everyone can do this)

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1. Name / Pronouns? 2. How would you describe your approach to writing / creating art? 3. Literature / art / films you’d recommend? 4. City, suburb, countryside, or wilderness? 5. What things/events make you nostalgic, if any? 6. What are you currently working on? 7. What’s one good piece of writing / art advice? 8. Is there such a thing as “bad” writing / art?

[thepoemturtle]

1. Anonymous (a leaf floating to the ground to rest beside the tree of life), whatever you want really (she/her) 2. Putting myself into the labyrinth and following every string that might lead me put again 3. Dalí, Hemingway poetry, Wheel of Time (so far) 4. Suburbs are quiet, but ring with untold fiction on Tuesday nights like these 5. Summertime and acoustic music 6. Getting across this tightrope stretched out in front of me, one step at a time 7. Never assume, only imagine 8. Things that mean nothing to you as your write them, so that when you finish it feels like you're looking at something foreign and entirely not your own

[thepoemturtle]

Nosebleed Club Application (task III)

Home is... all you have ever known and all you tried to get away from, but when your mercedes found it's home in the bushes and your heart found it's way into another novel about growing up, something tugged at the edges of your mind saying maybe this isn't so rough. Home is where you sit with skinned, knobby knees and melt into page after page if something that reminds you of who you thought you'd be someday. Home is where, a merced de algo ausente, hope runs out and your car won't start when it's cold enough. Home won't last longer than your freckles did last February when the sun hid from your face and your skin felt like the pages of your favorite novel

[thepoemturtle]

Nosebleed Club Application (task II)

i. Los ángeles, the city of angels. The city of people walking the streets in broad daylight and no one looking up to see who's around them. Wishes made every day and whisper-prayed to the cracking, grey sidewalk as the sun scorched the backs of our necks and we'd go where we needed to go, still dreaming of las ángeles ii. Grace would always talk about angels, how they were gods way of pulling out baby teeth and laying them in rows beside your bed to show you how much you've grown- and it felt like ripping your bones out to believe sometimes but she always said the angels were listening to us when I'd spend the night at her house she'd always pray before she went to sleep "thanks god, at least the angels see me for me, because you know no one else does" iii. Felicity told me last November that god was just a wives tale that you tell little kids about to keep them out of trouble, but I don't quite believe her because I hear about the guys I used to go to bible camp with bragging about how they didn't get arrested for this that and the other, so maybe they never listened to the stories, but Felicity never believed; she has a critical eye, she calls it, and I wonder if it's the one with two dark brown spots across it, one for her and one for her brother. They never believed in angels [The number four has been collectively removed. He will be missed dearly by his loved ones] v. Daniel told me one night that angels were just aliens waiting to pick us up and fly us away into Tomorrow, somewhere safe and somewhere he could finally be alone. Alone for real was what he always wanted, and his àngeles would make it so, and sometimes he would pull over and look up and just stare at the stars for half an hour and say nothing, and I know he was looking for something, some tell from the e.t.s to tell him it's time for him to move on. People asked if we needed help sometimes, but I always waved them along for him vi. When Ingrid left us I cried, I haven't really stopped crying since. I don't know why it's just always there in the back of my mind like she was the angel that god gave our group of the lost boys and girls just wandering this earth trying to make our own way of the shambles laid out in front of us and maybe the silence got too much for her to bear and I know that she could see everything falling to pieces in front of her and maybe just the atelophobia of it all was too strong. Maybe she just saw this was where she needed us to be or something, because even when she wasn't smoking you could see a daze in her eyes that made her seem more in touch with our celestial bodies than you'd ever think to imagine a sad girl being vii. Sometimes I don't know what I believe, because some nights I'll sit with Daniel and some nights I'll go to sleep in the back of the car between Grace and Felicity; it's somewhere that this all makes sense in my head, and god will whisper to me in the wind when I'm standing beside these new age romeo and juliet's graves and he's asked me why I didn't save them, why I don't do anything but reach for the blackness in the back of my eyelids and forget about heaven completely, but does it make a difference? The angels have left us here alone, but we still dream of los ángeles

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Hi my lovely friends, TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I thought this would be a good idea since if it weren’t for all your support, this wouldn’t have happened. I love you guys so much. You make my life better. You give me hope. You inspire me. Thank you for loving me. And thank you for not giving up on me,

In this giveaway I will be sending out three copies of my collection 

Each winner will also receive a letter, because as you all know, I love letters

And some polaroid photographs because those are always fun!

The same rules and guidelines as the previous one:

This giveaway is for my followers only

Only reblogs will count as entries and you can reblog as many times as you’d like!

Must feel comfortable enough to give me your home address, email, and some general information about yourself (self-explanatory)

Opened internationally!

Winner will be picked on September 16th, 2015 12PM Eastern Time

Ask box must be opened. I will contact you through there. If I do not receive a reply within three days, I will have to pick someone else.

And if you do win, post of a photograph when you receive the package please! :)

The winners will be picked through a random online generator. Good luck! I hope to write to you soon. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask :)

[thepoemturtle]

1 5 50 100

1. Yes5. No... well, kind of, but not really50. Who knows, I don't do much on the interweb other than like Google things and this100. Probably my sister

[thepoemturtle]

distract me pls

1: Is there a boy/girl in your life?

2: Think of the last person who hurt you; do you forgive them?

3: What do you think of when you hear the word “meow?”

4: What’s something you really want right now?

5: Are you afraid of falling in love?

6: Do you like the beach?

7: Have you ever slept on a couch with someone else?

8: What’s the background on your cell?

9: Name the last four beds you were sat on?

10: Do you like your phone?

11: Honestly, are things going the way you planned?

12: Who was the last person whose phone number you added to your contacts?

13: Would you rather have a poodle or a Rottweiler?

14: Which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain?

15: Would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum?

16: Are you tired?

17: How long have you known your 1st phone contact?

18: Are they a relative?

19: Would you ever consider getting back together with any of your exes?

20: When did you last talk to the last person you shared a kiss with?

21: If you knew you had the right person, would you marry them today?

22: Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

23: How many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now?

24: Is there a certain quote you live by?

25: What’s on your mind?

26: Do you have any tattoos?

27: What is your favorite color?

28: Next time you will kiss someone on the lips?

29: Who are you texting?

30: Think to the last person you kissed, have you ever kissed them on a couch?

31: Have you ever had the feeling something bad was going to happen and you were right?

32: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex you can talk to?

33: Do you think anyone has feelings for you?

34: Has anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes?

35: Say the last person you kissed was kissing someone right in front of you?

36: Were you single on Valentines Day?

37: Are you friends with the last person you kissed?

38: What do your friends call you?

39: Has anyone upset you in the last week?

40: Have you ever cried over a text?

41: Where’s your last bruise located?

42: What is it from?

43: Last time you wanted to be away from somewhere really bad?

44: Who was the last person you were on the phone with?

45: Do you have a favourite pair of shoes?

46: Do you wear hats if your having a bad hair day?

47: Would you ever go bald if it was the style?

48: Do you make supper for your family?

49: Does your bedroom have a door?

50: Top 3 web-pages?

51: Do you know anyone who hates shopping?

52: Does anything on your body hurt?

53: Are goodbyes hard for you?

54: What was the last beverage you spilled on yourself?

55: How is your hair?

56: What do you usually do first in the morning?

57: Do you think two people can last forever?

58: Think back to January 2007, were you single?

59: Green or purple grapes?

60: When’s the next time you will give someone a BIG hug?

61: Do you wish you were somewhere else right now?

62: When will be the next time you text someone?

63: Where will you be 5 hours from now?

64: What were you doing at 8 this morning.

65: This time last year, can you remember who you liked?

66: Is there one person in your life that can always make you smile?

67: Did you kiss or hug anyone today?

68: What was your last thought before you went to bed last night?

69: Have you ever tried your hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end?

70: How many windows are open on your computer?

71: How many fingers do you have?

72: What is your ringtone?

73: How old will you be in 5 months?

74: Where is your Mum right now?

75: Why aren’t you with the person you were first in love with or almost in love?

76: Have you held hands with somebody in the past three days?

77: Are you friends with the people you were friends with two years ago?

78: Do you remember who you had a crush on in year 7?

79: Is there anyone you know with the name Mike?

80: Have you ever fallen asleep in someones arms?

81: How many people have you liked in the past three months?

82: Has anyone seen you in your underwear in the last 3 days?

83: Will you talk to the person you like tonight?

84: You’re drunk and yelling at hot guys/girls out of your car window, you’re with?

85: If your BF/GF was into drugs would you care?

86: What was the most eventful thing that happened last time you went to see a movie?

87: Who was your last received call from?

88: If someone gave you $1,000 to burn a butterfly over a candle, would you?

89: What is something you wish you had more of?

90: Have you ever trusted someone too much?

91: Do you sleep with your window open?

92: Do you get along with girls?

93: Are you keeping a secret from someone who needs to know the truth?

94: Does sex mean love?

95: You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, is that a problem?

96: Have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring?

97: Did you sleep alone this week?

98: Everybody has somebody that makes them happy, do you?

99: Do you believe in love at first sight?

100: Who was the last person that you pinky promise?

[thepoemturtle]

Happy birthday to inkskinned! You are such a beautiful soul and awesome mother dragon to all of us :> and I hope your birthday is as great as you are!!

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Discussion 6/26/15

1. Doppelgänger 2. Fall of Icarus 3. Homunculus 4. Idolatry 5. Theft

[thepoemturtle]

1. Sometimes I feel like a stranger here. These streets I’ve known all my life push me put and say “you never belonged” but every time I get out its like hotel california 2. I landed on the sidewalk outside a bakery and my palms we’re cut up by the words you left with me, bleeding out fantasies 3. Someone small that slips into my veins and whispers through my body with the voice of the oceans “you could be someone else, you could be someone else, you could be someone else” 4. My parents always believed I was more than what I am, I didn’t have the heart to tell them different 5. This face with freckles in the wrong places and eyes like chocolate that smiles with teeth like tombstones every time someone says her name; she has stolen my name, my life… everything I think I need to be, and for what? Something cheap to sell outside Walmart

[thepoemturtle]

Deep is something foreign like the Feeling when you slip under a wave and it Crashes down above you Deep is the ocean calling you In a sea shell High is the fall, but deep runs the cut What comes next is just a series of questions How far can we fly before we Become modern art painted Across a sidewalk? How long will we last? Until the next graduation? The bleachers are high But everyone swears it’s such A deep way to say goodbye

“Deep” a.t.r// thepoemturtle

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Discussion 6/11/15

1. Life sentence 2. Words for a younger you 3. Mythical creature 4. Perseverance 5. Morning routine

[thepoemturtle]

1. Sometimes it’s a better thing to have someone in custody (sleeping in the bed they made- just with more police) than running free 2. “Just give up, it all works out when you do” 3. A ghost of tomorrow whispering to you from your bookshelf, someone that can save your world if you listened to them… 4. Fighting the current is great when you know how to swim 5. And there was evening, and there was morning

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Word Association Activity 3

(part 3 here)

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1. GOLD:

2. ANGELS:

3. GORE:

4. SHIPWRECKS:

5. HYDRANGEA:

6. AGELESS:

7. SCORPION:

8. MUSE:

9. SWAN:

10. EMPIRE:

11. SKIN:

12. GASOLINE:

[thepoemturtle]

1. Golden heart, silver soul. Some people wear gold jewelry and gold medals, but that’s not really a good color on me (or so I think), it just brings out the worst in people (from deep down inside, where roots have grown around your insecurities) and they’ll be nasty to have a shot at something that shines, like a murder of crows 2. Angels are real, but some wear Adidas rain jackets and help you up when they don’t even know you 3. I’ve heard AHS is a good show 4. My grandparents put a boat in a bottle one day, a friend knocked the bottle off the shelf. She never told 5. Photographs of flowers and wondering if you’ll have someone else that thinks they’re pretty too 6. Some things, like the pyramids, are ancient. They last “forever”; seem old and mighty, like a great grandfather telling stories about when he was a boy. Only things you can’t see are ageless, the ones that have the voice of a child, that still sound like yours even as the world molds itself differently, they’re fixed points in the universe. What’s still you when you aren’t 7. A boy who was a spy once met a man that fell off of a hot air balloon 8. A girl with fire behind her eyes and words that scream the motto “do no harm, take no shit”. A sweet summer child, like me but not… just different enough to be closer to me than stuck-together pages of a textbook 9. Swan lake was one of my favorite stories as a kid. Little me could watch it for hours, but I can’t even remember the story now 10. Roman empire, Byzantine empire, Ottoman empire, British empire, Empire state of mind… 11. “ His clothes are unremarkable, if it weren’t for his waxy, bright red skin, I think he’d have passed for just another homeless man on the streets, because I’d seen guys with eyes like his before (although usually they were government workers, not government inmates)” 12. You picked me up for lunch the other day, and as we rode to some fast food place in your car, I noticed that even though yours was much louder, you can’t hear the gas bring poured out as you press the pedal. It sounds a little better.

[thepoemturtle]

I tried for so long to ignore the sweetness you exude; I could've sworn you had better things to do than bleed out discord, disillusionment, and daisies

- a.t.r// thepoemturtle

[thepoemturtle]

My book, The Second Law, is now on sale: “A picture of the world in white, grey, and black that spans the course of loss and bitterness to love and acceptance. This book goes out to all the silver-souled people in the depths of the cosmos…”

You can buy it now at: http://www.lulu.com/shop/alice-t-ridley/the-second-law/paperback/product-21933153.html

Thank you to all you lovelies that helped me get to where I am today, this wouldn’t have been possible without you

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Word Association Activity 2

(part 1 here) Everyone do this!

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1. CUL DE SAC:

2. GOD:

3. DALMATIAN:

4. CAMPFIRE:

5. WEST COAST:

6. GLITTER:

7. SWIMMING POOL:

8. GORGON:

9. CITRUS:

10. BOMBER JACKET:

11. WHITE SHEETS:

12. DETROIT:

[thepoemturtle]

1. Neighborhood of sleeping creatures, waiting for your light to turn off 2. A man in one of my dreams named Kevin, always wiling to give me another chance (or maybe bury me alive) 3. Cruella DeVil was never one that I thought was worth the time of the movie, as far as villains go, but I watched it 4. Well, there was this one time… 5. California, the place every little kid wishes they could be 6. Asthetic that never goes away, the crem de la crem of lasting mistakes 7. I never had a swimming pool, but one time I went to my friends pool when I was a kid. I bit my tongue and it bled, but everyone said it’s not that bad because they didn’t notice 8. Medusa probably thanked Athena at first, for protecting her from that awful race of men that did nothing but try to take advantage of them 9. When life gives you lemons… 10. A whisper to the sky about missing time and finding love and breaking hearts and moving on. No one listens, because if a tree falls… 11. I slept on white sheets for years, but now they’re dark again. Just like when I was a little kid that couldn’t breathe, now I’m something reborn, but still very weak 12. Motor City?

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Discussion 5/31/15

1. Alone at night 2. What did you come home to 3. Is meaning necessary 4. Safety 5. What will you refuse to read

[thepoemturtle]

1. Why do I dream the same dream every night? It always ends with me being viciously ruined, one way or another, and when I wake I feel the bite of a monster in between my shoulder blades, breathing in heavily from across the room as it twirls some cobwebs and waits for me to sleep 2. Another plant fell in my living room floor, but the hardwood isn’t scratched so I suppose it’s just the neighbors car again (a creaking noise upstairs, but surely it’s just the wind) 3. No, I whisper to myself as I climb the stairs each night, nothing means anything, I’m just overreacting 4. Who needs safety when you can have adventures, my friends say. I’ll take yours if you won’t, I reply 5. My own ending is written beside me in blue ink, but as much as I wonder sometimes, I’ll never read it

[thepoemturtle]

My book, The Second Law, is now on sale: “A picture of the world in white, grey, and black that spans the course of loss and bitterness to love and acceptance. This book goes out to all the silver-souled people in the depths of the cosmos…”

You can buy it now at: http://www.lulu.com/shop/alice-t-ridley/the-second-law/paperback/product-21933153.html

Thank you to all you lovelies that helped me get to where I am today, this wouldn’t have been possible without you