“Hey, would you mind cleaning your dishes?”

“What?”

“I don’t want to be the neurotic roommate, but tho...

Those who say that history is cyclical are close to the truth:

Humanity runs in circles around the universe

Always searching

B...

“What? What’s going on?” 

“THEY'VE ALL JUST GROWN TENTACLES!!!”

(I ...

Secrets confound me.

Not in their use or application or anything like that. I fully understand why people hold truths close to them and never lo...

Let’s drop everything. Let’s drop our magazines, our tablets, our TV remotes. Let’s lose the stifling jobs, let’s get out of this uncomfortable condo. Let’s j...

Palindrone: an illegal robot that makes every word it encounters read the same forwards and backwards. Some insist that it functions via sa...

I got an old memory of you stuck in my teeth

And I'm all out of toothpicks

Entering his office, the new CEO felt like a Roman emperor...although he wasn't sure which one

They made each other out of seaweed

And other things on the shore

Each the other's Pygmalion

Never finished, always building their love

Theseus walked alone in the great labyrinth, in awe of the imposing walls that stood around him. He was close to his goal now. The smell was strong and sharp, and he quickened his pace as ...

Long ago

Two poor souls slipped into the very first conversation

And untold universes were born around them

He wanted to fall asleep

So he dreamt he was next to a ledge

The town of Utopia is just as you’d expect it to be. It is real, it is tangible, and it is truly amazing. Here are some quick facts about this marvelous place:

&nb...

The Willy-nillies and Heebie-jeebies got hitched and had some really messed up kids. Mumbo-jumbo and Hocus-pocus were pretty cool aunts, though.

They named him Unlonely, although he didn’t always feel that way.

(based on CmrGlc's Monsters Cover)

Sometimes in my periphery, the city looks like a cerberus waiting to devour those who dare enter....

On the bright starry night when the last of us dies

The white gates close

The Acheron dries

No...

Name: Toby

Gender: M

 ...

(for brownpaperbutterfly's record of the same name)

“Where is my heart?”

She asked her reflection

My muse hides in blank pieces of paper and mercilessly plays hide and go seek with me...but when I finally find her, she always has a present ready.

Egg in a window

You had a wonderful view

‘Till I ate it all

The Devil’s Decree goes roughly like so,

But take caution reader- this you cannot unknow:

"I, devilish Devil, diabolically declare

Malice and Apathy both considered Kindness to be insufferably full of herself; when alarmed, her reaction was always “Oh my goodness!”

Love and Death nervously went on a dinner date- things became awkward when they both ordered the couple at the table next to theirs.

The city lights spent their nights fantasizing that they were stars, unaware that they had formed constellations of their own.

Wings would be magical on their very first day

But what if with time, even flight was blasé?

You stirred in me an amygdalation

In my amygdala, of such strong sensation

As to boggle my neurons and, disconcerted,

<...

The two pairs of Kings and Queens, tired of their charade, said:

"To hell with the knights, bishops, rooks, and pawns."

And went on a double date.

Crushed and defeated by the great gusts and whirlwinds of reality, the survivors were forced to create for themselves a new series of makeshift utopias.

Was distracted by a fly while I was trying to work and ended up writing this:

The Nymphs of Beelzebub

Lie on the ceiling

I felt a phantom vibration

Which came from a phantom phone

Which I thought came from your phantom limb

Which made...