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Mostly-Empty Writer's Apartment

The real life of the party is where absolutely nobody fucking cares just how lame they are potentially being. They don’t fucking care if they’re playing the most overplayed song of the summer, because it’s fucking good, and they’re jumping on the bed and spilling beers and cotton candy martinis. They’re wearing sunglasses inside, and the only politics that matter are of positivity and life and freedom. It’s the side of drug culture where nobody is using without friends looking out for them, and the music is amping up the experience, and it feels like the party is going to go on forever, and you feel really

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217 deviations
Literature

Mostly-Empty Writer's Apartment

The real life of the party is where absolutely nobody fucking cares just how lame they are potentially being. They don’t fucking care if they’re playing the most overplayed song of the summer, because it’s fucking good, and they’re jumping on the bed and spilling beers and cotton candy martinis. They’re wearing sunglasses inside, and the only politics that matter are of positivity and life and freedom. It’s the side of drug culture where nobody is using without friends looking out for them, and the music is amping up the experience, and it feels like the party is going to go on forever, and you feel really

Featured

219 deviations
Literature

Occam's Razor and the Disposal of Dangerous Books

Mrs. Occam’s Fundamentals of the Disposal of Dangerous Literature class was the first day Camilla held a razor to a book. Before that class, she’d never been able to come close to whole books, not really. Of course there were the book burnings—there were always the book burnings, which were always more exciting for the children and adults than for those over the reading age of thirteen and the elderly. She’d stood in line for the mildewed piles of those books, or done daily duty as the holder of the class instructions in school, turning from pressed aluminum plate to pressed aluminum plate along with the daily lessons

Science Fiction

14 deviations
Literature

Letters to the (pffft) Dead

Tabitha set her late-night cappuccino on the counter next to her cash register. Her shop had been closed for two hours, and this Friday night was dedicated to staying overnight for inventory and the possibility of intercepting a robbery. There had been a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood lately, and it appealed to her to lie in wait to put the fear of darkness into some greed-filled threat to local industry. However, there was something nagging at the back of Tabitha’s mind. It wasn’t a burglary. A shop crawling with a menagerie of the world’s most dangerous spiders, both exotic and mundane, kept supernaturally at peace

Tabitha

10 deviations
Literature

Supplementary Lesson: Subtext

Writing General Lesson 1: subtext Ah, subtext—one of those oft talked about though rarely addressed issues of writing. If there's no other thing that 'shippers can call for evidence of their 'ship, they'll call subtext.* But subtext has so much more to do with writing than just "But you can see it in the way he moves—he's so into her!" Think about the arguments that people get into—not about shipping, but just regular fighting. The argument is never about what the argument is about. It's never about who's making dinner, or who needs to move out of whose parking spot, or who squeezed the toothpaste from the middle. It's about

Lessons

10 deviations
Literature

Entitled: Waitress

“I said I didn’t want any more cheesecake.” Fuck this fucking job was the thought forming the lines to Candy's wide white smile. "Okay, I'm so sorry! We get these mix-ups in the kitchen. I'll be right back with your--Tom Collins was it?" No fucking tip from this table, that was sure. Tourists… “Make it a Boston Sour,” the man at the table said in his distinctly northern accent, looking out the window with derision while his distinctly apathetic wife devoted herself to the wonders of her phone. “Why yes sir,” Candy said as she removed the three plates and sashayed back to the kitchen. She du

Contemporary

21 deviations
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Face Painting

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Scraps

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