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sadness it comes like rainsadness by ~en-miettes
sometimes hard and unexpected,
falling in torrents around you
as you run to your car from
school or from work or from your house
off to your next great adventure
other times it falls softly and
you know it's there but you're
still able to keep strong and carry on
and you knew it was coming so you knew
to bring your umbrella and you don't get
that wet as you travel
it's like waves and it comes in and out
washing up old shoes and stray fish,
forgotten toys and lost jewelry
sometimes it rises up and laps heavily
at your pier and you have to run quickly
for fear that it will over take you
sometimes it sits the


Effortless When they first meet, she tells him she is a vampire. But he never really knows because the next day she's a fae and last week and yesterday she was just a normal human girl. Bu today she's wearing her Chuck Taylors and a short formal dress and little martian doodleboppers on her head.Effortless by ~en-miettes
"I think you're a little lost," he says as he sits next to her, unsure of whether he's talking to the alien antennae or the girl wearing them.
"I think I am," she says, and he's unsure if it's the doodleboppers or the girl who says it.
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Looking back on that day, he realizes there are so many more things he should have said. If he could have done it all aga
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