CT Idlehouse

Joined November 2017

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I write stories and articles. Sometimes they're good.

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Sovereign (Part One)
The Faye Estate was a blur under the torrential downpour. Amy Hartwell was ever so glad she had the sunroof of her Magnus GM fixed. It was wild, wishful thinking - a sunroof in countryside England? Even from the decades of erratic climate change, the UK was always remarkably wet and chilly.
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Fiction
The Right Side
You kept me in a box filled with Bible verses, Each telling me my life ain't mine... That I belong to a man who would promise me heaven
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
My Bedside Eulogy to the Death of the World
As the Frost poem proclaimed, "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice." But I posit a different conclusion,
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
You Are You (Beautiful You)
As a little girl I was told I was a pearl Who needed to keep myself Clean and pure. We were compared to used cars And spit-on candy bars,
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
Fire and Brimstone
I'm so tired of hearing what the Bible says, What the preachers say, What the men in blood-soaked suits say. I am past the point of mourning
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
They'll Come For You, Too
First, they'll silence the teachers, The writers, the theaters, The arts and the poets, Gone before you'll know it. / Soon after, it's the radio waves,
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
To Be Dead, But Not To Die
There is a difference Between the two states of being. They seem like a paradox On the surface. Yet under the cataclysmic waves
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Poets
'The Handmaid's Tale' Analysis: Chapter 20-22
CHAPTER 20 Offred and the Handmaids file into the house where Ofwarren is to give birth. Offred notices the large amount of food placed out for the celebration. It should be noted that in the sequel, The Testaments, food wastage is considered heinous because of the ongoing war slowing supply lines. This extravagance of food denotes the Wife's and Commander's status, especially the coffee and wine. Handmaids are not permitted caffeine or alcohol and have strict diets because of their role as breeding slaves. The inclusion of wine is also interesting because many modern day evangelical beliefs claim alcohol and drunkenness to be sinful. This is a symbol of privilege, a brief glance into the moral hypocrisy of the elite families that supposedly represent the utmost godliness.
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Viva
Konami's Doing It Again
I feel like a five-year-old tattletale tugging on the teacher's dress, screaming, "Teacher, Konami's doing bad things again!"
By CT Idlehouse3 years ago in Gamers
Chains
This a low Beyond tears, Under bedrock, Into the core Of the Earth we maimed. / I do not weep; For this sadness transcends emotion,
By CT Idlehouse4 years ago in Poets
Relic Description: "The Modern Woman (c. 2022)"
I have been fossilized, Buried in the strata of collapsed society. I have become stone, Trapped in time, Like a cage, Like an insect caught in amber.
By CT Idlehouse4 years ago in Poets
Remember Us As We Were
I sense the end Blowing through the streets Like heady breezes making the windbells chime. I want to believe In a dream of permanence
By CT Idlehouse4 years ago in Poets