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The Both of Me

2009-06-26T12:51:17-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 624, Reviews: 4, In-Progress

This is the story of Riley Kissinger, an unbalanced fifteen-year-old, and her experiences in the teen unit in the mental ward at her local hospital. Rated T for language, self-mutilation, eating disorders, and suicide reference.

miss abortion

2009-06-24T13:40:02-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
General
English, Rated: M
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 0, Complete

fetus-pink lips curve up in a smile, and syringe-clad fingers do not shake, knowing their job oh too well.

not a poem

2009-06-24T13:38:39-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 163, Reviews: 4, Complete

it takes everything in me not to knot my fingers into your hair and pull you into my eager and aching lips.

sixteen minutes

2009-06-24T13:36:27-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: M
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 179, Reviews: 1, Complete

their melodies still echo, long after the vocal chords that sung them have decayed.

fading dreams

2009-04-21T21:38:14-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: M
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 262, Reviews: 3, Complete

you and my stomach are never satisfied, always wanting more from me, more than i simply will not give.

jake

2009-04-21T21:36:56-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 5, Complete

pupils dilate.

contagious

2009-04-21T21:35:53-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 267, Reviews: 1, Complete

nobody can make me shiver like you do.

sugarlimbs and cherry lips

2009-04-21T21:34:52-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 2, Complete

don’t you know i’m falling for you?

blackeyed boy

2009-04-21T21:33:52-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 132, Reviews: 1, Complete

i'd like to have you know that i have moved on to sweeter boys with prettier eyes.

estival abhorrence

2009-04-21T21:32:34-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Nature
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 1, Complete

bikini straps snap against my skin like a flagellant’s whip

sawdust and velvet curtains

2009-04-21T21:31:04-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 190, Reviews: 0, Complete

i am melting wax, drooping down in the gesture of a bow…you are my flame, eating away at the whole of me

sucralose sentiment

2009-03-04T20:15:46-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 2, Complete

it’s the first truth you’ve ever told me, and the only truth i never wanted to hear.

his name is nightmare

2009-02-18T18:50:59-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 160, Reviews: 1, Complete

his name is nightmare because he is vivid and unforgettable and completely terrifying

sunshine

2009-02-18T18:49:59-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 4, Complete

we call him sunshine because of the way his crooked, car-crash smile makes me light up like christmas.

just like sand, you sifted through my life

2009-02-14T18:15:08-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 292, Reviews: 2, Complete

once you told me that i was like a lowercase letter, small and unassuming

winter words

2009-02-03T19:56:50-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 236, Reviews: 3, Complete

the day you broke my heart it splattered into a million little puddles of simmering sunset, and sometimes i wish that i were as beautiful as my blood.

diary of a self hater

2009-02-03T19:33:34-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 201, Reviews: 6, Complete

give me lips stained pink with a carnation’s kiss, lips that know the curve of a smile better than they know the pucker of a frown.

four letter words

2009-02-01T00:37:49-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 296, Reviews: 3, Complete

you could learn a thing or two from a plastic mannequin.

i tell myself

2009-02-01T00:37:03-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 0, Complete

you are unwrapping a new lover and tossing me into the corner

prince of kleptomania

2009-02-01T00:35:40-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 250, Reviews: 0, Complete

other times, when i’m high enough to hear the angels screaming my name, i pretend that you still love me back.

when it comes to emptiness

2009-01-31T22:34:29-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 39, Reviews: 0, Complete

full title: when it comes to emptiness, space has nothing on you...

looks

2009-01-31T22:33:29-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 240, Reviews: 2, Complete

i pluck off all of your eyelashes like a lover pulling daisy petals in the sunset-splashed afternoon

love?

2009-01-31T22:32:39-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 268, Reviews: 1, Complete

if I asked you to love me, would you?

it is the reason why you can never love me

2009-01-31T22:31:41-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 0, Complete

he broke down the walls i worked so hard to build yet i do not mind as much as i thought i would.

hello

2009-01-31T22:30:49-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 201, Reviews: 6, Complete

hello, my name is k aeleigh and i smile when i lie. i probably lie when i smile, too.

dear self

2009-01-31T22:29:02-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 208, Reviews: 4, Complete

dear self, you can always cry on my shoulder.

about a boy

2009-01-31T22:28:10-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 219, Reviews: 0, Complete

i’m crunching pecans and mini oreos between my teeth, thinking about writing about you.

insert beautiful boy's name here

2009-01-31T22:27:26-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 212, Reviews: 3, Complete

the truth has finally crawled from your lips like venom into my veins

112008

2008-11-21T06:05:49-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 159, Reviews: 1, Complete

I am hacking up the nothingness that I so desperately wish to become.

ABC's

2008-11-18T19:15:59-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 366, Reviews: 1, Complete

Under all of this makeup, underneath my tissue paper skin, I feel something die

he has

2008-11-18T19:14:18-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 1, Complete

he has lovely dark eyes that gleam like obsidian gems, and laugh with affectionate amusement every time I make a mistake

love

2008-11-18T19:12:29-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 1, Complete

he tells me that I have to love myself before I can love anybody else.

forever a child

2008-11-09T19:22:55-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 121, Reviews: 0, Complete

she always walks her mother’s dog on Sundays and gawks at his house with the fading blue shingles with big, blank eyes like discarded teabags, flecked with black-greens and muted browns and all colors that are ugly.

one of those types

2008-11-09T19:20:53-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 216, Reviews: 0, Complete

she’s one of those types who doodles on napkins and who orders their whipped cream with their hot chocolate, and not the other way around.

mother

2008-11-08T10:27:09-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Family
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 223, Reviews: 1, Complete

...and it’s those sometimes when I lie to protect you from me

onetwothreesixteen: a sort of wonderful death

2008-10-26T20:18:34-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 170, Reviews: 3, Complete

my lips are slicked with black cola, the zero calorie kind, trying to starve away the hunger that roars in the cavernous hollow of my stomach

chocolate covered poppy seeds

2008-10-16T21:33:52-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 134, Reviews: 2, Complete

the air was thick with a sort of sleepy contentment and our Converse-clad toes swayed with the nodding daisies

his eyes are blue

2008-10-12T21:13:39-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 140, Reviews: 0, Complete

his eyes are blue, but they are black like tar and charred chicken flesh

i can see right through you

2008-10-12T21:12:11-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 249, Reviews: 1, Complete

I think that you are the devil wrapped in lean muscles and olive-skin, with jade eyes and a lovely smile as crooked as your morals

i love you

2008-10-07T19:29:01-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 170, Reviews: 2, Complete

it hissed a soft “I love you” laced with potassium cyanide and jewel-toned silk

je t'aime

2008-10-03T10:36:48-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 170, Reviews: 4, Complete

“je t’aime,” he breathed into my ear, lips so close that they bumped my earlobe and made my pulse stutter like the erratic twitch of a butterfly’s silent wing beats

FAKE

2008-10-03T10:33:16-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 72, Reviews: 3, Complete

funny how she is fine, even though her smiling, scabbed wrists suggest otherwise

consumed

2008-10-03T10:21:41-08:00

Author: poetic heretic
Life
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 2, Complete

would you still kiss me if you knew about my secret love affair with the faceless woman Bulimia?