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december.

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she was the girl of skin-covered bones, sunken waterlily eyes, and papier-mâché words. but the thing i miss most about her was the sound of her eyelashes brushing over her cheeks. there wasn't much else to her than her gentle music; you couldn't really see her, you could only hear her presence: her shallow breathing, her feeble heartbeat.

but now her body is nothing but ash and ice, floating far beneath the surface.

and i really wonder if she was really alive to begin with, because it was winter when she died, both literally and figuratively. she had seasons: summer was burning, winter was frozen over. autumn was middle ground, and spring frankly didn't matter because she slept straight through.

she was a solstice, an equinox, a stunning star just waiting to implode.

that day, she told me that she weighed seventy-four-point-three pounds. i made the mistake of telling her that that wasn't beautiful.

she told me she was tired and said she'd spend tomorrow catching up on her rest. now i don't ever want to lay myself down again.

she called me and told me she was on fire; i told her she couldn't have been on fire because it was the middle of the winter.
she hung up.
she never called back.
hmm.
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neonsquiggle's avatar
she was a solstice, an equinox, a stunning star just waiting to implode.

This paints a heavy picture. I love it.