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Emmeline

A Story by livspen

And I said she was too skinny, always too skinny.Even when she was eating a cream cake and smiling painfully.She looked ever so nice in that red velve..

Imagined Picture Of You

A Poem by livspen

The lipstick left on your mug The one with Homer Simpson on the front Which says “Mmmmm, Doughnuts” when you pick it up That lipstick ..

Romantic

A Poem by livspen

Paradox.That’s exactly what this is.His eyes and lips and hands and legs are everything theyAren’t…I picture him on horsebackBare-c..

1. Raindrops

A Chapter by livspen

Alison was playing music through the wall on the morning of Wilfred’s funeral. It beat loud at me like someone knocking their fist, knocking it ..

2. Lament

A Chapter by livspen

That night, after dinner, my sister and I sat on the old leather settee and she asked me for the first time: “What do think of Wilf, then?&rd..

3. Moon

A Chapter by livspen

*** When we looked up, it was there. The blind moon, hanging, a white silk blaze. We had never walked so far before and time was irrelevant. Her..

Careful Enchantment

A Book by livspen

A young man remembers how friendship and love became entangled after a boy named Wilfred entered his and his sister's life.

Sparrow

A Poem by livspen

I had a dream I'd somehow met this womanAt a party.A summer barbecue on a windless day.But how could that be?She hung about the apple trees and then s..

Stillborn

A Poem by livspen

The edge of the moonIs not jagged tonightAnd the skin on your handsIs a startling whiteYour smile is a daggerAnd your black eyes are wetWith a heart i..

Yellow

A Chapter by livspen

I found my sister reading a Kingsley Amis novel on Christmas Day. She was sitting cross-legged on the centre of her bed in her syrup-pink sock slipp..