Taste: fried egg and soy sauce
Touch: the softness — down, bunny fur, silk — of her head is her super power. It saves her from a life of cruelty and hurt, the one thing that makes people reach out for her gently when in every other way she would be abused. It would not be the same softness mounted. It exists only in animation becoming in the moment of death dry and dull. The softness fades when her soul departs.
Sight: his hash marked scarred and freckled forearms, claws, scratches, bites: the veterinarian; grief condenses in her forehead, hangs heavily at the corners of her eyes, drips down the crevasses in the lines around her mouth and pools in the pout of her lower lips
Smell: a cherry cigar; sweet, wet, mown lawn and wet, soiled dog fur
Sound: "What, are you stupid?" "Well, the last time I was in treatment..."; Ecclesiastes 7:3-5 "It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die and it is a good thing to think about it while there is still time. Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. Yes, a wise man thinks much of death, while the fool thinks only of having a good time now."
Extra: Knowing that if I do not stop now and ask, I will never know the answer, the detail, the name, that may or may not make all the difference.; Following connections to a dead end.; an erasure of sadness; cave words: extremophiles, cenotes, gypsum, limestone, sulfuric acid, snotites, The Chandelier Ballroom-Lechuguilla Cave; kinds of penguins: Adelie, Emperor, Chinstrap, Grotesque - the six foot tall albino penguins that appear at the end of Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness
Touch: the softness — down, bunny fur, silk — of her head is her super power. It saves her from a life of cruelty and hurt, the one thing that makes people reach out for her gently when in every other way she would be abused. It would not be the same softness mounted. It exists only in animation becoming in the moment of death dry and dull. The softness fades when her soul departs.
Sight: his hash marked scarred and freckled forearms, claws, scratches, bites: the veterinarian; grief condenses in her forehead, hangs heavily at the corners of her eyes, drips down the crevasses in the lines around her mouth and pools in the pout of her lower lips
Smell: a cherry cigar; sweet, wet, mown lawn and wet, soiled dog fur
Sound: "What, are you stupid?" "Well, the last time I was in treatment..."; Ecclesiastes 7:3-5 "It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die and it is a good thing to think about it while there is still time. Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. Yes, a wise man thinks much of death, while the fool thinks only of having a good time now."
Extra: Knowing that if I do not stop now and ask, I will never know the answer, the detail, the name, that may or may not make all the difference.; Following connections to a dead end.; an erasure of sadness; cave words: extremophiles, cenotes, gypsum, limestone, sulfuric acid, snotites, The Chandelier Ballroom-Lechuguilla Cave; kinds of penguins: Adelie, Emperor, Chinstrap, Grotesque - the six foot tall albino penguins that appear at the end of Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness
One of your best.
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