Misery is cruel,

Happiness is kind,

Fear is a waiting fiend,

and Trust is hard to find.

 

Love is a secret kept,

This does not fit in with a round robin. I'm sorry for letting this run away with me, but gosh, it really got me thinking. I'm aware that I fixate on death, because I've seen a lot (too much...

Shine on

 

Oh bright star forever burn

Through my heart into my soul

Shimmering silver nightly return

Your ethereal beauty makes ...

Dearth of preparation

 

With indolence I was born,

No desire to create.

A ragging child to ...

I wish I had options,

I wish I had you,

Nah, scratch the options,

Say you want me too!

when the sky gets too cold, clouds begin to shiver and tiny bits of them fall to the world below..

we call it snow.

Merle had Asperger’s syndrome.  Everyone at school called him a retard, but he knew better.  Merle’s mother brought him to the little fundraisers she was always putting on ...

I really like you. But I think I like you more with a glass of wine. 

Eventually he pleaded: “Just say what’s in your heart.”

So she smiled and said: “Blood.”

 

You poured out your heart

you worked so hard on your tiny project

but no one seemed to notice

you thought to yourself,

"maybe it's&...

I am so pleased with the evolution from Dientes Feos drawing, my tiny poem, to eaneikciv's fantastically wonderful tiny tune! So I love my poem the length it is, but listening to the song ma...

I sit and watch the clock. A minute ticks by and I wonder. Did i really just waste a minute of my life watching a clock?

‎10 million reasons as to why only one reason matters.

Sometimes the meantime is for a lifetime.

Now likes to say that things are the best they've ever been. But Then, with a small smile, likes to explain that there was always a better back when.

Fear of inadequacy permeates his thoughts only to be quickly dismissed. 

The Charismatic is an object of fascination.

A master of manipulation, he knows how to adap...

the idea of you dying frightens me

not because it is your ending

but because i would have to watch

all your stories

fade from your eyes

<...

Nobody knows fair for themselves

Fair is something only strangers see

Fair only has time for everyone else

 

Fair doesn’t care about li...

Robots do not write sonnets -
They do not really understand
The meter needed to effect the 4 sets
The antiquated regulations demand.
And it's not a sonnet if it doesn't foll...

Loves husband. Black eye. She fell.

 

I'm an only 17 and when it comes to guys, i'm so embarresing. I just thought writing this would make me feel alot better. feel fre...

somewhere... live two stories

one of hevn, one of urth,

who awake to find they’re hugging

with no knowledge of their birth.

 

...

Hi, my name is Rainey, and when I'm with other people, I don't say very much. But when I'm by myself, I can't shut up.

I am writing a poem.

 

Here is what will happen:

 

Mom and Dad will hold hands

because they are happy, of course.

<...

If kissing a toad turns him into a prince,

Just imagine what showing some affection

To confection

Would do..

It was Summer, 1999 and, as the millennium drew its final breath, I set sights on my first love*. Let’s call him Peter. Peter played basketball and the banjo. He was multi-talented in alli...

At the request of several, here are some more details about my experience. 

 

I moved to the town in August. In October, I received my first letter. At first, I...

Gah, this is one of those situations where I have no idea how to approach it. I have to put it in some sort of context for you, so that you understand it's relation to tragedy. Otherwise, it's j...

Sebastian used to say schizophrenia was just a severe case of narcisism.  If reality disagreed with him, well then, he just changed reality.  He'd say "I'm just so smart I need two rea...

I don't take baths anymore. Gross, right?


I haven't taken a bath since May 23, 2001, when I was 11 years old. To put that in perspective, the movie Pearl Harbor came out two day...

i am not supposed to laugh at being sick i am not supposed to laugh at the rambling medical terms i am not supposed to laugh at the bright orange pee i am not supposed to laugh at the weight los...

(I've had a single line of this written for awhile, but was still trying to figure out where to go with it, after reading through Joe's lyrics to "Nothing Big" again, I got inspired and knew...

If needing rides was income I had earned
Then riches would be mine to pay for soles
Of shoes worn down - the miles that I have burned
While walking to the bus have scorched small ...

The Game

A Poem 

From beginning to end, from end to beginning,

The story runs the same.

The living breathe and the dead do not,

A...

After a long day's data-entering, I stood at the bus-stop waiting for the 40D to trundle me home through the wilderness of Dublin's North suburbs. The stop was located on Parnell Square, where o...

When TIME posted the magazine assignment to hitRECord, I was, oddly enough, not at my computer. Instead, I was on my annual vacation to a YMCA family camp, where one of the nightly activities wa...

FADE IN: EXT. STREET - DAY The setting sun casts its last rays across the roof tops. A car parks by the curb. REBECCA (20s), glowing with a confident and positive aura that emph...

(written 6th September 2011, on the bus journey to work.)

‘Sorry. Actually no, I’m not sorry’

 The fact that this was said as a ...

*This is the complete version of my screenplay, now available for the first time in one convenient text submission.  Enjoy.

       &n...

Alone with my thoughts I stumble around, walking the somewhat empty streets at night.  Sometimes I get cold but normally things like this go unniticed. I found that the only things in life ...

This was written on the bus in about 20 minutes.  Who knows.

 

This fellow called Fred,
Instead of a head,
Had a turnip on top of his neck

And the children would jeer,
For he looked pretty queer,
And the grown-ups would shout...

 

You make people angry or make them smile

Why, oh why, are you so versatile?

You perfectly describe a sweaty night

You help envision the very worst fight

In the summer of 2000 I was pregnant with my now 11 year old son. I had no car and I lived on the bad side of town. I walked my dog every moring to the store. The same pack of five dogs, four bi...

It's been 2 years since last  I saw your lovely face

with eyes hidden behind walls of nothingness.

You were seen, but could not see

Heard, but could not ...

hitRECord to me does what I think is sorely missing from the spirit of what I do.

I work in the traditional Hollywood film industry, working on set mostly.  But I started where ...

It’s 7 o’clock in the morning.  She rolls over and gets out of bed.  He springs to his feet.  She climbs in the shower.  He jumps in the shower.  Blow dryer ...

talent does not entitle and while i reckon recognition would be met with appreciation, something tells me a reckoning is not what you require--sorry, desire (see, you and i will disagree on what...

My last serious relationship ended quite badly. He was the first guy to ever tell me he loved me, the first one I ever fell in love with, the first one who made me believe I was actually capable...

There was a time when I had a single, clear memory of you I remember the sweetness and the sorrow of that memory But I don’t remember the memory itself The idea of that memory has been whi...

ACDC was playing while your mom was in the back of a hippie van. The driver was smoking Marlboros and drinking lemonade, while you were being conceived. And I fucked you at the debutante ball in...

Joe - Do you find it difficult? Does it take a lot of restraint?

Other - Not particularly. I suppose, you get used to the idea after a wh...

(GUY and GIRL are sitting next to each other at the Fall Formal. They both are clearly alone. It should be clear that they are interested in each other, but both are far too self-conscious...

There was a rebellion rising up in the literary world.

The weary full stop had just about enough of being overused and constantly last.

The melancholy comma could stand n...

The dust breathed his last and bid his unkind world goodbye. The bite wounds were too deep.

The little girl was fed up with her long time friend, Silence. She laid the cards on the table and gave him an ultimatum: she was sick of being the only one talking and so he would speak to her ...

There is an art in life called walking away.

Nobody really knows where Baron von Monkenchowzer came from.  He appeared one day on the scene wearing his odd sunglasses and pull-down hat that covered his ears.  He even wore the hat...

I wished up on a star.

And when it winked back,

I knew it heard me.

INT. CONCERT - NIGHT

A MAN is sitting in his seat at a concert.  It is intermission and there are a few empty seats next to him.  He is staring at his date off into the dist...

Two guys sit beside each other in a theatre. It is intermission. MATT, about 28, is a clean-cut everyman who has been enjoying the show very much. ROBOT, indeterminate age, is staring ahead, emo...

"I´m cold" said the snowflake to the flame

They embraced, a passion all consuming

Hi all! I hope you're having a swell night. I don't know what script was selected for the skit at the Fall Formal. I don't have to, I'm sure whichever one it was, Joe and his acco...

When you asked if I wanted to ride along, I didn’t mean to say “sure,”
it just left my mouth a bit quicker than “hell yes,” in a rare moment
of normalcy I...

~in the spirit of collaboration, please leave remarks. thanks!~

 

Grab your guns and come on boys, it’s Christmas Eve today

A threat has come to te...

She looks at me and smiles, but I do not return it. I do not look at her, I do not say anything. She continues to stand at the door and stare. I ignore her and proceed with lining up my colour p...

Uncountable loopholes, seemingly to no end

Queries aplenty, too many to attend

The approach fails again, you always defend

I won't be defeated, I start to con...

You may not have heard

But you’ll never forget

The terrifying tale of

A most murderous duet

 

Now, it may cause a fright

[History shows that correctly formatted screenplays are rarely read with such readiness as prose, so this is a script in prose form. A screenplay version will come shortly.]

I am sitting beneath fluorescent lights, the soles of my boots pressed against linoleum tiles. This is not the old classroom of my memory. You've guessed it - I am at the doctor's office. To my ...

The last few weeks of Pastor Joe’s life flashed in front of his eyes in a blur. It wasn’t his whole life, like you sometimes hear about, only his life from the time that he met h...

Why are we taught that ABSTINENCE is the most effective method of CONTRACEPTION?

That's like learning the best method of keeping a HOUSE clean is not to LIVE in it.

 ...

I dont like to share my past, at all. Im a closed book, the less you know the better. However, Ill share just this one story from my past. Once upon a time I was a young engaged to be marrie...

You are and always will be beautiful. Never forgive me
if I don’t tell you that enough. This world can be unkind if
you’re young and female,...

printed letters proudly stand

but cursive letters all hold hands

i feel like i have to remind you that there is no royalty in the royal we and the throne you sit on is not one of majesty one of idolatry one deserving of ceremonies you don’t deserve a th...

(I'll be posting this in instalments to encourage me to actually finish it!)

The Silver Tree had stood on Silver Hill for a long, long time. Ages. Longer than a piece of str...

All the good ideas are taken. All the bad ideas are mine. I think I have a good idea, therefore, it cannot be mine.

The clown tried to remember the exact moment when the shift happened. When the very sight of him brought about tears and instilled terror in the little children he loved instead of the smiles an...

you are waiting in line like you always do, at the bank at the DMV at the movies, only this time you’re holding a jug of milk you won’t drink and a bag of apples, nameless and bland ...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Then introduce them to each other and see what happens.

 

"I see you have fine taste,"

the Wolf said, eyeing my basket of flowers,

Growing up, you spent so much of your time trying to figure out all the answers.

But then you did grow up... only to find that there are no answers and the trick is figuring out how ...