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AGE:
36
LOC: Portland, OR
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 29
LOC: Portland, OR
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 29
I’ve been a closeted writer for a lifetime and just recently have decided to get off my ass and put some stuff out there. mostly i tend to rant but i’m trying to shape my verbal spew into something more along the lines of short stories.
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I’m laying on a couch. It’s dark in this room. It’s dark and i don’t know why I’m here. I’m shaking. I think it’s because of the drugs but then i see a sliding glass door about ten feet away from me. It is open and the autumnal chill is coming in steady streams towards me. I want to get up and close the door but I can’t really move. Something akin to rigor mortis is setting in only it feels more like I’m candle wax that has melted and is now slowly and reluctantly reshaping into a solid. The ...
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I sit at my kitchen table and stare, catatonic, out the window at the day that has given itself into night. My body feels like it's vibrating with a fatigue that has culminated over the past decade and amassed itself into one monstrous leach. I have nothing left to give. I don't want to think anymore about the painfully long shift at the bar today but I can't seem to stop myself. Like any other ingestion of toxins, it must be processed before the body (or in this case, the mind) can let it ou...
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good start but i would try going back and editing a bit. for example, i think you can completely omit the word "icky"- it is already implied and also it seemed to dumb-down the subject matter a bit. the feeling is beyond "icky" isn't it? feelings I just cannot shake leftover from one overcast morning that found me naked on top of covers. and: Reaching over to take a sip of soda, fuzzy wet ashes and cigarette butts touch my tongue instead. Silently I spit foul gunk back not wanting to wake the...
this is a really beautiful poem and after reading it several times to let it all sink in i have to tell you, it gave me a chill. you convey the scene between these two people with well chosen words which, for me, evoked strong emotions. the only part that lost me was the bit about jars of olives and three empty rooms...and i'm still lost. this part was my favorite: "they forgot even words fingertips not touching, eyes lifted and far away breath melding with his cigarette smoke while tufts of ...
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this was really cute and funny. i love how as the reader you feel let in to this world between two friends just trying to make the best of life and all it's shit. i think you could make a whole book/story out of their emails to eachother and i for one would love to read more!
i liked how you kept your poem simple and to the point. i think you have a calling for the 3 word connections- "words, deed, pockets" and "beguiled, numb, content"...these were my favorite lines. really nicely done.
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