Drabble the first

[synapticjava]

Just something my brain was screaming at me to write. It's odd and incoherrant, but I'll post it anyway.

Memories flicker through my mind and across my vision like a broken projector film. The ancient sepia frames have rotted away in places, leaving only darkness - the darkness that seeps into my soul while I slumber. The bright-dark-bright-dark wrapping light is driving me to madness, and I feel myself scream at the phantoms that haunt me. Phantoms of smiles and memories of tears I never cried are creeping into the silence I once knew. Nightmares of children I've forgotten and of a life perished before it was truly realized is grating on my mind. If only I could forget.

Comments

[imaginaryimages.livejournal.com]

Wow. It might be odd, but I like it.

I can almost hear the clip-clip-clip of the 'projector' as a "mostly-taken-for-granted" life flickers and flashes before ones' eyes. Life can really be that way. If you bother to look back at all sometimes you can only see bits, pieces and snippets, some of it is simply gone, all looked at with biased eyes. Surprising things, sometimes seemingly unimportant things, stick with you and you wish you could forget or change them. Other parts won't come back no matter how hard you try. All part of the "If I knew then, what I know now" hindsight. Very powerful imagery. Thanks for sharing it.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I do see my memories like that, actually.

I'm glad you liked it. I'm actually considering venturing back into the world of *gasp* Original Fiction writing. So, thanks:)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

One of the last times I was in Chicago, there was a daugerrotype exhibit at the Art Institute (hope that's the name), and this drabble reminds me muchly of that. Many of the pictures were photos of the dead, and creepy as all fuck, but riveting nonetheless.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

The Art Institute of Chicago? Great place, they have a great impressionist exhibit.

Um, thanks. I think? heh.

[virtualpersonal.livejournal.com]

Very interesting and artsy, kinda poetic too. Nice!

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Glad you liked *g*