TLBlackwell

Joined August 2025

3 stories

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petty poems. petty prose. pretty people.

Silverstein. Palahniuk. Mathers. Plath & Poe.

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Honorable Mention in This Is How I Remember It Challenge

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AFTER THE END
You don’t have to live. No, not really. Slick cardboard punishes soft skin. You don’t have to die. No, not yet. Silhouettes climb wooden legs—shadow hands grasp at chantilly.
By TLBlackwell3 months ago in Poets
INTERLOCKING SEAMS
Unzip me down the spine, step in, it’s just my size, wear my skin a week or so, feel time turn counter-clockwise. You’ll meet the kid who begs,
By TLBlackwell4 months ago in Poets
Take Me Back to Yesterday. Honorable Mention in This Is How I Remember It Challenge.
“This is his mother. Please call me.” Twenty hours of tortured silence- Broken. The gleam from the screen shone on my face, my skin rivaling a sick Victorian child’s. I stared. The digital script somehow dripped sludge, thick ink rolling across my thumbs. Silent. I knew this conversation. I didn’t want it. I was already tortured by the lingering dread, beaten by it. My fingers finally submitted, jabbing at the numbers violently, a stu-stu-stuttering SOS pattern.
By TLBlackwell5 months ago in Poets