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Pretending

2013-03-18T11:47:43-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
General
English, Rated: K
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 839, Reviews: 1, Complete

pluck your heart out of your body like it is nothing more than a blade of grass sticking out of the dirt. pretend your feelings are insignificant: little tiny insects that you can just swat away when they begin to buzz.

the beautiful ways to burn

2012-12-04T18:20:23-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: T
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 286, Reviews: 1, Complete

sometimes, all she wants to do is burn /five interpretations to the word burn

Precipice of Perfection

2012-12-04T18:08:26-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Romance
English, Rated: T
Romance/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,063, Reviews: 1, Complete

Perfection. I roll the word on my tongue and let it slip down into my throat, hoping in vain that it will find its way into my body and latch on to something inside of me, that it will take root and grow into something beautiful (that deep down inside I know I will never be).

Things Left Unsaid

2012-10-27T16:27:47-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Romance
English, Rated: K
Angst/Friendship
Chapters: 1, Words: 606, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

It is 3:24 in the morning and I am staring at my phone, trying to scramble together the strength I need to call you. My shaky fingers pound out the numbers engrained in my mind, and my heart hesitates as I bring the phone up to my ear. /short fic about missing someone who doesn't exist anymore.

Goodbye

2012-09-22T12:51:47-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
General
English, Rated: K
Tragedy/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 423, Reviews: 1, Complete

maybe we are both lost drifting through the corridors wisps of forgotten memories in different universes brushing past each other, ghosts of fingertips that never seem to touch.

Imperfections

2012-09-13T23:37:51-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 460, Reviews: 3, Complete

won't you run your fingers across my spine and dip into the valley of my heart? trace the scars across my soul and fill my empty lungs with words, close the spaces between my cupid's bow lips and send an arrow straight to my heart to help you find your way across my art of a body and entwine your soul with mine.

Should not

2012-08-02T00:57:20-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 466, Reviews: 1, Complete

I don't know how to feel anymore, how to speak anymore, how to breathe anymore. So I leave you, the words I don't know burning bitterly on my lips. The words I love you echo in my head and I consider saying them out loud. But you turn to walk away and I am left with a space of could have beens and should have beens. I shouldn't feel this way.

Anchor

2012-08-02T00:55:38-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: K+
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 526, Reviews: 0, Complete

You are the catalyst Satan has been waiting for/ My slow descent to hell/ Quickens with my heartbeat as you speak/"You are perfect" you say. /"I am drowning" I think.

Reality is too real

2012-08-02T00:51:53-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: K+
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 464, Reviews: 3, Complete

Sometimes I feel so tired/ That I cannot seem to breathe/ My eyelids flutter shut/ But I don't know how to sleep/ Because I am kept awake by monsters/ That haunt my thoughts and dreams/ I am kept awake by heartache/ That eats inside of me

Indifference

2012-07-01T00:15:30-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 505, Reviews: 0, Complete

I know that scars fade over time and the line I etched into your heart is not forever That it will be gouged out by deeper rivers that burrow their way into you, creating canyons Separating me from your thoughts and your heart I know this.

Crumbling Sandcastles

2012-05-30T14:39:51-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 1, Complete

Short poem about a girl on the shore.

Peter Pan

2012-05-30T14:36:26-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Love
English, Rated: T
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 769, Reviews: 1, Complete

Your lies like honey coated my heart and choked me from inside.

Marching Towards Our Sunsets

2012-05-30T14:32:44-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
War
English, Rated: T
Tragedy/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 380, Reviews: 1, Complete

We are toy soldiers in tin battle, we march towards our doom.

Romance on the Roof

2012-05-30T12:32:29-08:00

Author: happypenguin01
Romance
English, Rated: T
Romance/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,962, Reviews: 6, Complete

I took in deep breaths, willing myself to calm down, willing myself to forget the little bird of hope in my heart, the possibilities I had just found myself imagining, the knowledge that I was in love with my best friend and he didn't love me back. Oneshot.