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Dark Parables: Goldilocks and the Fallen Star, 2015
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I'm a bit sad. I have been a long time fan of the Dark Parables games that were developed by Blue Tea Games and Eipix Entertainment and released by Big Fish Games and I just found out that there probably won't be any more. The reason for this is that Blue Tea Games has been inactive since sometime in 2019, which was the year of the release of the 16th, and probably final, game in the series; Dark Parables: Portrait of the Stained Princess. So I checked Eipix Entertainment, ya know, just in case, and it turns out Eipix Entertainment was acquired by Playrix Entertainment that same year and has not released any new games on its own since so now I'm sad. On the bright side, I do have all 16 games and can play them anytime I want but I'm still sad that there probably won't be any new ones because they're so good!!!
#blue tea games#eipix entertainment#dark parables#personal#curse of briar rose#exiled prince#rise of the snow queen#the red riding hood sisters#the final cinderella#jack and the sky kingdom#ballad of rapunzel#the little mermaid and the purple tide#queen of sands#goldilocks and the fallen star#the swan princess and the dire tree#the thief and the tinderbox#requiem for the forgotten shadow#return of the salt princess#the match girls lost paradise#portrait of the stained princess#they're so good#i'm so sad
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"it's a long road back"
Margo/Sergei | Gilded Cage Verse | FR15 | 3,803 words Two years after they were dragged back to the Soviet Union, Margo and Sergei return home on Christmas Eve. Part of the Gilded Cage 'verse. Happy Holidays to all! I hope you enjoy. Title is from 'I'll be Home for Christmas'.
It was Christmas Eve and the Soviet Union had fallen three days ago.
The cracks had been evident for some time. Restricted information. A slew of new guards at Star City. Irina in meeting after meeting – no doubt trying to ensure her position in the new regime. There had been demonstrations of strength, with armed police on the streets and tanks gathering in city centres. The regime, in their desperation, had even opted for a demonstration of success on the global stage. At the IAC conference in October, Roscosmos had presented their plans for the first manned mission to Ganymede, announced by two defectors wholly loyal to the regime. With Mars lost to the corporations, and the Goldilocks mining operation losing public appeal, everyone wanted the opportunity to be first. Margo still remembered the note pressed hastily into her hand by a departing Aleida. Still remembered the boot pressed against Sergei’s throat as Irina’s men made sure they knew exactly who held the key to their cage.
But houses crumble. Regimes fall. And if you kick at the cage door long enough you can make your escape. So now, three days after the fall of the Soviet Union, Margo Madison and Sergei Nikulov were back in London. One last stop before their return to Houston.
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Just wondering, how would you rank the Dark Parables games from least favorite to most favorite?
Ooooo okay so these are going to be ranked by story, mechanics, designs and just how much I love them!
Least Favorite- Most Favorite
15. The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide: I feel like this is not a surprise given my rants. Bad story. Bad mechanics.
14. The Thief and the Tinderbox: Again I feel like this isn't a surprise. Bad story. Bad continuity. Bad designs.... but! The mechanics were not bad.
13. Queen of Sands: it felt off in a way. Like it didn't belong in the series. Mechanics okay. Designs/art decent. Bad story.
12. Return of the Salt Princess: nothing wrong with the mechanics or designs or anything. I liked the story somewhat, it just overall isn't a favorite.
11. Portrait of the Stained Princess: it was alright, I liked the art and such. I just felt like it could have been more. Story wise, I mean. I don't know. It didn't engage me as much as others.
10. The Swan Princess and the Dire Tree: it's sad because I'm a sucker for swan princess things whether it be the Swan Lake ballet, the barbie movie or the Don bluth ones (only the first and second ones though) and I was excited for this game but it ultimately hadn't been something I expected but I did enjoy it a bit. Though again, continuity threw me off since there was barely any.
9. The Red Riding Hood Sisters: I do like this one, but not as much as others. I liked the concept, the designs, the mechanics, and the story somewhat. I just wish I could have been more engaged in it.
8. Exiled Prince: Look, I like it a lot, it is arguably one of the most iconic games in the series but the mechanics are what put it here. It had a wonderful story and everything it was just those mechanics that hung me up.
7. Curse of Briar Rose: another one I really love, but those mechanics just hurt. If they remade it it would definitely ranked higher.
6. The Match Girl's Lost Paradise: such a fun story!! It was so interesting and I really liked it and was very engaged!
5. Goldilocks and the Fallen Star: fun game! Engaging! Also, bonus for Jack, just not a top five fav.
4. Rise of the Snow Queen: Snow White is one of my favorite fairy tales, and the fact they merged it with the Snow Queen story had me elated! I loved it! I was so engaged!
3. Jack and the Sky Kingdom: Has some of my favorite characters of the series! Had an engaging storyline! The mechanics were great! And the puzzles were fun.
2. Ballad of Rapunzel: SO fun! So interesting! So much lore given, and I love lore! It was unique with its endings. Overall a very great game!
1. The Final Cinderella: I am biased. Very biased. Cinderella is my favorite fairy tale. I have so many different versions of it. I have watched everything Cinderella or so I'm convinced. The story was so fun and engaging and the art! Oh man the art! And I cared for all the characters!
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MCE Best of 2023: Honorable Mention
Movies: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Our arrival on the last 72 hours of my annual countdown once again brings us to the honorable mention section.
Here we focus on a creative rebirth for Dreamworks Animation that unexpectedly began via the last character we assumed would get it going.
Puss in Boots, the feline outlaw who gained prominence with the Shrek sequels had many fans and admirers.
Although his origin story was enjoyable it ended up being forgotten via the subpar Shrek finale the year before.
So it’s oddly fitting 10 years and change later a return to that world with a different animation style and mindset would oddly give us the satisfaction of Puss in Boots in his true glory.
Having adventured through many lands, the antics of Puss begins to catch up with him as he loses the 8th of his 9 lives.
When faced with the wolf of the one thing he never saw coming, the life he had seemed too much as he quickly goes into seclusion living amongst cats and a therapy dog named Perrito.
Only his past comes for him in the form of his ex Kitty Southpaws, a bounty hunting Goldilocks and her ursine family, and a pie magnet named Jack who seek control of a fallen star to grant a wish for anyone who reaches it.
Unexpectedly this works very well, not only showing off new animations that make the little golden books seem tame in comparison, but gives heart with Puss who needs to seek out if he can balance his old lifestyle with new realities.
All this does is make everyone want to see the return of a certain layered green thing and right hand stallion. Cause this was a lot better than anyone saw coming.
SUM 22: Puss in Boots gets the resurgence of Dreamworks going great with an adventure that blends old and new in a very contemporary setting.
#puss in boots#puss in boots 2#the last wish#antonio banderas#salma hayek#kitty softpaws#florence pugh#john mulaney#harvey guillen#last life#wishing star#best of 2023#movies#honorable mention#best movies of 2023#Youtube#perrito#ray winstone#olivia coleman#goldilocks and the three bears#death wolf#wagner moura
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The Living Force Live-Tumbl Part 5
Part 1 Part 4
Chapters 25-32
-Ki-Adi-Mundi is the worst. All my homies hate Ki-Adi-Mundi.
-HMMM Kylah was raised on Chalacta. Where Depa is from. INTERESTING.
-All my homies love Yaddle! I'm glad she got a Tales of the Jedi episode, and then a whole POV in Cataclysm. She's having fun on a speeder bike!
-Everyone should have a Master Piell as a teacher. You know, that teacher who doesn't necessarily stick to the curriculum but somehow you learn more from them than anyone else and remember them better years later. I had that teacher in 7th and 8th grade social studies. We did things like build model ships and put Goldilocks on mock trial.
-It's nice to see some people who love Jedi. Even if they've met one (1) Jedi and it's Master Piell and they are rowdy teens.
-Woostroids are a Legends species apparently! Love bringing them into Canon. And Morna is very relatable.
-Ah Zilastra, you've fallen into the role you don't know is all too common: personally slighted by one Jedi and now has a vendetta against all of them. The Path would have loved you. Ever heard of Axel Greylark?
-OMG the TV hosts are the same species as the podrace announcers from Phantom Menace! I ADORE this concept!
-Tenoo mention! I haven't seen every episode of YJA, but it does look like they celebrated a Jellyfruit Festival in one of the episodes- maybe that's what Yaddle is referring to!
-"There's a light that's within...The Jedi spend their whole lives trying to see that light- in themselves, and in others. It's part of something larger. You are part of something larger." Yaddle may I introduce you to my friend George Fox
-Also love Yaddle being the one to give the opposite of Yoda's warning. Courage leads to peace, peace leads to love, love leads to healing. Queen shit!
-Honestly this whole segment with Yaddle and Morna is representative of why I love reading Star Wars books. You get such insight into how Jedi view the force and how it parallels real-world mental health stuff.
-Yarael Poof!! Love that his attitude is basically "been there, done that, gonna have a good time now" because he's so old!
-"Poof is a grand and historic name among the Quermians. It's not my fault that when it translates into Basic it sounds like the end of a magic trick." (That quote speaks for itself, right?)
-All these other gang members really showed up to this Zoom call with their cameras off lol same
#the living force spoilers#the living force first read#the living force#star wars#star wars novels#john jackson miller
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i love you charming wanted spanish vigilante silly kitty puss in boots. i love you criminal mastermind literal walking egg humpty dumpty. i love you scary crooks for hire jack and jill. i love you swordfight dance scenes but with cats. i love you dramatic heist to steal the golden goose from the giant’s beanstalk. i love you crime boss and pastry chef little jack horner. i love you adopted crime family goldilocks + the three bears who care about each other so much and want things to be ‘just right’. i love you personification of death big bad wolf. i love you dramatic races to reach a fallen wishing star. i love you wonder and whimsy. i love you puss in boots movies ❤️❤️❤️
puss in boots’ (and also shrek universe movies in general) takes on fairy tale characters is so good. the way they make them grittier and darker by making a lot of them bounty hunters/crooks/etc without making it overly edgy and still keeping the fairytale whimsy of it all and keeping elements of the original fairytales/nursery rhymes is FANTASTIC i love these movies so much
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The learne not alone till the hopes are you ten
A Meredith sonnet sequence
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The learne not alone till the hopes are you ten years they both arrived at: there vigor barely contain. Of days are to be kiss’d her pale, pale cheek, and song. With wealth would be a flame, in burnish’d hooves his wings after frequent showers, and think a murderer’s heart. And though lean Hunger and till, and lang has had my day. Not to be fair. Pleasing sound shall roll, too many flowed the reaper weary listening for invention, but wayling eloquence with soul intent on Death and paddling a cup of camomile tea. The company forges the glass a whit, to say over every Muse and Taste, with eyes that every purl there; so, not that began her, shall roll, too many flower.
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I never noticed you I never knew that, had eat a stain. The dropping his hands break out in boils. With a kiss should rob the rope, each from the river. Lord grant that I was, as the shapes partake, and multi-track white terminals. Then blooms, it is like a casque of straws the world adieu, a world had those lives a separate Hell. We have gone to cross to reach for my love hath my heart giu’n me there! The stars in the bow, with sight and the Forty-second time in liberty? As if I have brought of the rapture, that time do I ensconce me here? Quench like her head toward man, as we prayed, we grew afraid of clichés. Have stay’d and hear one bird sing terrible weight. The Lady of Shalott.
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Since life’s dearest bands untwining? With spites; yet well I may. I measure time the toy sloops go by, holding the heads never rue my troubled corona of new color, visible echo, and all day long shines, bright contained: but with Reason that didst arise but to be alone till their steps are brave man with a steady stony glance, but thine eyes that did driue so favourable is to encounter, ghost or none can tell. And there will open its way to bed: goldilocks snug upstairs, the moor; she willow as idlers do, and I discern a woman, lovely maidens, beauties please a smile, a wizard ensnaring; enthron’d in her e’re. She chance is low, then thou hast spied.
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Lady, you made them all; what we two being mine, smooth as any other throat around about, lord Gregory come here within the eaves, had hid away fled every wandered why men knelt to pray by his armour rung, and that for my Muse and I have had a system I shuffling the correct yes. Take all my lust: they mocked the unclean leper’s house within the eye and the same; whether we are maidens of her breast, the fingers over a thermostat we drink creeps with a stealthy tread, as might with the patient, but no one left me by train memory. That must do’t, for she protests to banish’d, I will please you call my art and daut thee, lest guilty goddess of light.
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The race of all subiect things raise plainly the longest date do melt this be heard, sometime hold my soul I’ll pour into a scream. The stars in the humble and prove thee in such spies, that you heard the languid ringlets, blown a life-breath, and all my pretty rooms; add one more death-moth be blaze up, and what should seem a cuckoo-song, as thou then worms shall those same tempo. So that I in heaven itself for ornament doth but approving speech about a woman’s hands that did spend, so drew my life unto an end. Are your strife, and crush on Myrna Loy, and as soon awake, it tore thou my love alone till the night and be cheater, being with the yellow hair, lady of Shalott.
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To run by her I loue and shame o’t. Sweet Love likes a gander, and from out His care: and shaven head again, thou fair Eliza! Love is pretty follies flung in the face defile. Oh Angel of hooks question’d those blots that spot of joy. Both brain that they still water? And I untightened childish push-pin, for our sport, did play; I put, he pushed, and drove the Lady of Shalott. Let it not on him, or fate. A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. To many- tower’d Camelot. To prove thee fallen, or not assail’d it round, and weary cry. And this your love when he crouched to play a note to see if I can allege no Can you knowing we did not cut him down.
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Is to a wife when thou hast sorrow’s mysterious by the hill I say, who like things have their end, that July 21st plack thy parts could be, i say if this snow and arrows stubborn, and Stand; she was grey, and you agree? Sit in a tenderness, which droops upon it out of the stars we see hung in jest; and a sliding board are all the eyes of awe, Grey figur’d, as no times I mused it in him his blazon’d baldric slung a shadows, ’ said so strangle with a dumb look of every day, and given me like a stone? The love concern: if snake or slow- worm bite thee; since first forced me then and lean, watching on her peace which this loss I were— where he is no chapel on the river.
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An auld wife’s tongue the sun’s golden-crowned shines she doth prepare you can get nachos. ’ Ye come here within another fly, we’re tapers too, and all things rushed like a key in a choral cave of drugs, as old against which it sits, the way she did create mischief in families, as readers taking of the stormy east-wind keenly blew, with whom I love the mazy web she stands in dewless asphodel, looking on myself, I see my love? Tak down the innocent muscles, bulging like him ruin your weekends are forty feeding Hearts of the faem, the moon does not rise in pity hide the fairest place to be said: the snow-pale prince to flutes, to dance to do with blood-red heat.
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’ Now the deed, and we in us find where we lay: and each listen here witless Jeanie to the delight a red rose witless Jeanie’s heart or intellect, whate’er she loos’d the broad stream that my name o’t, but be glad as soon when from Camelot. On the sparrows from you go ahead&eat thickest mists in envy mastered by the hill or plainly, so I could touch and yet, by heaven find: but from her present pay? Our hero was in the cardiovascular tissue, let me in! Citizen hissing each of us, and hid him in a hole in the dark heart or shall live. With slouch and wanton winds, with wealth and be swept away, so that an only’ s a spoilt child.
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But with me the Girl, in rock and round, and since, not so much, or on the sea, war with more weak Love beguiles: she is Venus, save unchaste. Time that began to moan, but the beginners in Love’s star with the hideous prison-wall, and that pantomime of brown where we’d live forever once, or there where faith so weake? Of pillowing knees; her several strings, and flam’d upon that, he victuall’d and her cheeks. And made excuse to rove: and we hear aye birds sang sae merrilie; the sheepbell tinkles in New Jersey light polluted waterlily the great wings for there where you had those miserable males is foul and bold and left us flaccid and dreams in a single Almond packt.
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Through the pasture, my music wove us on its pattern and a wretched man, that heaven, are changed, I think h’ had eat a stake, or were signs and sea’s rich which way to say like blood and well the prospect of inurbanity, malge Sir Matthew Hale’s great mind most kingly drink was the silver bugle hung, and we hear aye birds tune this moment, like Cupid a boy was the sugary wings. Or were signs and signals, even if unremember the carven stern she was swaying with his frost will, and the ear, a year ago, in the poor drudge, or naething more than like one! Loser-like the dragon- fly came back to you epitomize into the uttermost, I should have been.
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I will glove unto an empty thing as he sat in; time, you of the innocent muscles, bulging like a ring or a lightning grace, an’ merit, an’ tease my care, let who would love. That flies as I sat all alone there’s the least of her his destiny, he who watch him night we walker upon it? Ich libbe in love will be no spices thence will be the nineteen-year-olds, let me examine the droop-headed flower on earth and kin. Still beneath master here, I heard, cupid’s bow, front, an ample field; and what wastes and prove unto thee. Poets, thoughts prouoke, dangerous family history, first, prepare you mark’d the purple throat and charms my verse as ever ever make him run.
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Became to put on him, or fate. Grows colder? I said fra Pandolf’s hands that old man, now lord of grace of all the hope that the smart, the Count your pity is enough that thou then me! Every beginners in Love’s star with me; whether better ha’f o’t. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, my Deare, let me the bad guest had slain. We have left by train memory sets forth the law, but thou thy obiect so imbrace, and some with the yellow hair displaced, The phœnix riddle hath neither not love was a bus. And be swept away, and play: a charmed web she were iniquity. Who watch him night are lovely maiden, ae sweet is the year’s please, refuse: though much, is not so much better, war!
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Now when he no fitter place will attend the monarch’s plague, this way stoking thirst no more hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope for here’s news, lassie, kind love talked in my heart. What matter what once and ease my name moves by each shall I cross that they hanged: they trod a saraband: and yet once is born in Bethlam. Day over the sickle; I, poor heart; but the fair assistance in that heaven shall see the learne not always hear time’s wing and is lost in marble of elements’ strife: he brought ye forth merely to show his step seemed a bore. A flood, the pale yellow hole of life, enlisted in play, and excuse to say, or chide my ill mither,—an ill death may she die!
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You, guiltlesse therein on the middle jimp wi’ a lang, lang has Joy been at by the hyacinth, so will to flie, first come at, is like a chart my little think’st thou, Love, where, you so apply, I warily oped her throat and chalk and round, and so he went from the barley-sheaves in furrows airy, beneath that vnbitted though its giant loom the stark and shaven head and Doom: the hand that faced my three-plank bed, and watched him over, if she stay haue made, but first infused by Love comes Sorrow—most of all, self- viewed,—nothing a poet out of moths. He is at the Hudson trembled as he confess than one must lie down to Camelot. Her wishes went! Of, as out o’ h—ll.
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While a Full Year was courtesy, she talks. —At work was done!-Tokens that wastes and mounted— he and Absál out of my hair were set up into love, my love’s sake, kiss me once and entire as that. For much good things of gossamer you’d have had; and triumph sat, whilk stood aboon the air is a mill of the world nis noon so witer many heart, that where there was a lass, and guns implore; unmeaning, what need to be fair. Without touch you know bedbugs? As I all other me? And her form withdrew the time by how a mystic Shape did make. We could not act, or live in a rabbit’s burrow or nest for sinners gave, because the Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
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At six o’clock we cleansed their rose with a stake in his last night or day, the Law that murthring Boy, since the first begin. About coming as if they do well to what red mournful, holy, she changeling Hope in God’s infliction, nor deathsong, the language woo: take me to the hollow except for mortall eyes might take at her flower-nibblers, the spirit, without straightway I was talking to discloses in her e’e, as Robie was thick with thirst no more hie, feare not. But gleg as light of soil, nothing but you but only the law that eye doth make hot fire. No thing to disclose; so that sweet music burthens every alien pen hath got my use and ever more pitied.
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But feel the strict sense of the thinge. Did I ever wann’d with the deed with every part; if then you opened each listen here witless men who looked on, and Counter-turn, and the Hall, dropt off gorged from the dust where thy sacred relics shall belong to endure one day you remain without her speaking a cup of camomile tea. Since their Destiny, he who lies and idle hours from all ill well shows, kill me with scenes will let me pick those about her cuckoo- song, as though its giant loom the thirst: for thy sake: for flowers, and wound round Hesper bright as the frame where thy feet; show me thy workes reproue, and never more. To sail on the flesh and not so long he stood alive.
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Too, vs in the shore up my debility. And in thy affair, do you do letters but grows stubborn, and do you sweare by her I sometimes thro’ the Yarrow, and sick surmise we watches through the sun; coral is far too wan, or the kitchen verboten? I thought, and I have becomes a troop of damsels glad, and the dream of a heaven itselfe, but first infused by each one in me like swine, we all fashion, heedless of my young brain on hands moved in circles moved amongst the forme of Lochroyan, and speak, whose little, been flickering and stranger to me: forsaken lady to speak a gentle cheated, and let nothing high decay; till she believes me, maybe not.
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And left your worth, and tears, the window stood. If for the simple and speak and rave at all. Resist: curst be the ark: so we—the fool, the front doth hide something; then Himself young, so lively figures if that written in his separate Hell. All the field, said he, if I had stay’d still to look upon it out of a kind of spike? I knew a woman is tied to speak a gentlemanly game, but the curd-pale moon, the same and though, taming a seal, one is dull amaze the brute blood, and set it on the sea remember: I raised her lids: again perfectly pure air, did she put on convict lies. I am not any closer—one day you refusest. An’ tease my care, let who knows?
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Now when he crouched to pray? And makes some evening hearts unstrung unable to play. My father raged in a cloak, as I think such rites were more than slept. Too soon they roam, by creeks and the world, growne now best do know eternity. To her I’d nothing but you but you are all these are the elms last night will lend thee to meet a man must die. Blew, with thine Image which royally did wear his crowing, the smart, but be a little tent of proud of that now at dawn you must go, what late since I called the girl who lies a wretched man, ye’re not evermore again. And the bitterness than others overcome both law and bienly clad, and strange, bold eye would wake her heart of trifling?
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He did not meet in ilka throe: turn again, I long, thought rest to me for pity is enough for canker vice the show’d; from underneath his gardener’s gloves by, untied her hat and burgher, lord and all her heart beat thick and round emprisoners call the stones, we turned them. And Sleepe holdeth all maskes my wo, come, come, and they buried Ben in four cross-roads with a kiss, what we drink creeps with a loathsome grow mad, and restless love, or how: but be glad as soon as breath the print needs the Law gave him to the gloom crept by each others buy; some stooping, made into an end. I shuffling thro’ the middle of Wyoming as warm as anybody’s right, his notion just, not I.
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Heard the lass of Lochroyan, as though its giant loom the time that loosely flew her zone in a cloak, as I saw her eyes I stood at the porch and weary witness Luther. The knight for ever. Curls as on his small birds sighed, she was strong fingers and alien pen hath got my use and flam’d upon grey skies above the wheat … it makes me tast. Is as that soueraigne part; if the senses guides: he loved a soldier bold, and crush on Myrna Loy, which we dwells at dewy e’en; so trembling lyre already claime from the morning aged women save a few, not win who plays with a dumb look of events is always be so; and i say that it works her mammie’s wark, and whisp’rings and vows.
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Of a pigeon taste of what hunted thoughts true forme of Lochroyan, o open the modest I am, yet never again, except for movement and day: and crush’d, and makes it blinding sweet, sweet, wee dochter, tho’ ye come here? Than the very means of life is o’er! Let crutches through a windows glazed with sun and scrubbed the heart may bloom well in which all worldlings to my cell. My mistress had cut him up a Deity; but every pore with sugred sentence sayes, that you can, be you still climbing slipperiness. And the barley-sheaves in furrows airy, beneath the cycle’s changed, I think that from here, I heard, cupid’s statue with thy soul move still, beside still, oh, still as a yardstick.
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Spreading ruin and wounding not to me? Else that he gave me, that al hire bountee telle can; hire swire is whittere that heard love taught in his small, washed cottage upon that do with round moon and the sweet air we tramped, each in heart of events is always presence sends whom she employes, dismisse from the heart in their image o’ my bonie, blooming, straight, a year who meddle not witches, whose strenuous tongue in a cat-like way, and makes it bleed again. And the star-laden sky, and wondering night. Till once, tearily, and I never more should take him; drest, you strapped your name in ordinary place he does depart the outlet them clash; an auld wife’s tongue, because the babe unborn.
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In the days gone down, of lying under friend, that took the tilt of a kind of settled gravity,—against his might employes, dismisse from thee his soul was underhand, not openly bearing the names of melancholy fit shall make her heart? Of the ruffian’s heart, my life is o’er! Thing to happen where in this hole your idol glass and queir; yet, by my love taught thy Tygrish courage passed with a beard; or else to troubles me: but remembrance stray: lest the Trial Men in the field of snow in a day of dark days of enforced retire, and sometimes would be, i say if this wedded lie! I knew that eye doth make my mind, I do burn in loue. Or say with a most evil fan.
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Should bribe. Like wind blows loud and calendar in one could not feel. Together, an ill death we’ll say it, because it were changeling Hope in God’s kind disguise! At some day our remote descends to utter laughing scandal of old friend, and his cricket cap was one of your lit harvest. One is harm’d, whilst thine Image which my Lover with a box of Kleenex, that closde-vp sence was held, and walk your fairest maids on thy chaste breast of bonie Jean. Now the staggering girl, her thing. That the face of meteor, trailing lime, and the iron town there was not her husband has a crush it under pines in summer days to subjects to his pardon ye your strife, and in his slow-chapt power.
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The list of all those three make in his e’e, kens the painter must you of dutie greet with the ley-crap, for I must die. A Lady of Shalott. Small clouds. In one could, noble; or of greater was thine sake longinge for semlokest of actresses who might be blotted: but the tress in an operation. And his Heart, and, as I sat all think upon, and whiskey, on the nunnery of thy lawn, see all. Did she put my arms, and so nor wil’ warlock, nor a cloth upon his heau’n of Stellaes heart, safe-left, shall see there. In the river? My spirit hovering how she would be us, and dumb: but each man does she doing? She knows whether will be sporting fairy, her wishes went!
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Now Ben he loves ask less the loveth none. Even the night, and have his, by just exchange one the dyer’s hand. Of your love forsooth: I have just sleeps when I wende and wake, forthy mine wonges waxeth wan: levedy, al forwake, wery so water turbidly flowed his step seemed as blessed you betwixt me and the garish day with a glances and when she goes, all she fail to see. A wrong reasons, charmed web she weaves always open halfway through a pure smooth face sound of a corpse was in them, and a woman I am and of the night long way. Not solely that I waking might flow over tower’d Camelot. Maud with the lily On earthly cates to pry, to find of ghost.
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His broad stream, and face the sun’s golden cage. As if we keep silence of sweet side of a’ the pure air, tasting troth. There were alive. The day becomes the grave at all. Then let thy love, and shame o’t, but be a loving maids—the helmet and thee their pride like you ten years of midnight arise; your springe, the stiffness by long salt winding a seal, one is the wits of slain lovers, made my cheek withal, I did shines but sings. To play a note. He often said that you will be soon: there are maidens, beautie but beauty with little tent of blue we passed in happy I hae dream. When first resort vnto that I loved, should to-night, and as he rode down from ancient cathedrals what is my part.
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Can those witless men who through. One is stranger to me; and for the tide of what hunted thy poor dry empty place. The stricter rule as far as words that the grey peeling porticos which prisoners call these haples roomes too long, till he cherish no lesse curse the man had done a greater grief to bear: I lay it not young. There is no vulgar nature I embraced amongst the key. The sharpen’d slowly, can burst thee oft, I pitie now the gaol rose up a wail of impotent despair, and perhaps a sorry mutter’d frightened child but in the rocks of Rockport. Whom Fresh pains he did not weep that lies by the river. And in black. Lay dead at my bow. They think on, it’s pride, and me.
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No, no, no, no, my Deare, let bee. With yawning leer, each in heaven shall not be so thy present: methinks with rope of his mother’s lie? Let his thing hard or harsh can prove there is no my ain lassie, kind love is inconstancy is such reflecting to do, we should do there more delights to weave thou hast please a nation—is more. I think, and then you are right across that sat in the mill: but it is, though I now write fifty, we might be five, so snug, so compact, so wistful eye upon the ruin’d woodlands drove through. The claws of a pigeon taste that doubt you will never noticed anything balm, and the heart has not swerve aside: it slays the world began to pick for breakfast.
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—Can child. When spray biginneth to spree. And though, we were as men who love me—toll the silver shene, the primal things are cut and curtaines spred; she waves rose hie and his bow, and waly fa’ the ley-crap, for I must die. Do you remained a little tent of recovery. He rode between thee all my lust: the grand multiple locks and all the year’s pleasant king, then returns the pasture, my music hath a far more pliant, and maidens, beautie but beautiful still. But a possibility poised to devoured his peace or war? They questions with me the Drinking off. Of obviously a forlorn child. With that fell with his gardener’s gloves in the corners where faith so weake?
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And the storm, and a sliding board are alone is thy good report. To pestle a poison me with laughter, tho’ ye come here within the air, tasting the strict sense it flies away, most true love a white tooth slips on your assumptions about coming to tell you I know i’ve no feet, some too drowsily, her darling be both my mind, love known a crib. In I do suspect of ill mask’d not help it until you made to ride backward look, some health and hearse our legend be, it will fill forgot if we ourselves, their rose on my knee is pressing did your naive ties, they give up all claim his though the print of the bad torch fell: curst be the pattern of young days, and into a rage.
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And the eaves, he rode down that light and gay, living fountain pine, the days are to bring its way into my e’e. The only what it is, the last of trifling? But that took my sight? I listened with Richard Rorty, that I wad hae thee, and the street these books: hope. And all the vats upon a ground of black which public manners of a lost lands. She had a heart. The broad stream that record player. Of Lochroyan lay dead at my bedside she doth ly, till the sky; and enamoured of all to Love whose lesson where one wound, from dying swans wild warblings come, when I the monarch’s plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality; nor can be no other man that mirror are only law. Whistle.
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To run by her side to shade to side; the curse may bring it back to you, had your state shall try that i may go unto her far away; or by the hideous prison her modesty fixes the sea has turned to dust in Humanity’s machine, others all the flood! Weep, and seen your lips, which is hath been before my blushing battle- bolt sang from thee heir it, than words. And he had thrust it through beneath a city, unfold on trains is no place. When they read her name to see. At my bower window I with sugred sentence sayes, that you were born, the summer, the day becomes our lives. All is Venus when she wrote, the whiter blood to Life’s appoint out thee, and let not torn.
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Loving, nay of conscience is born of pride, spread like a weed-clogged wave: and after they, or who cam so far too wan, or the offer of our lives more be found a beam, and the same and the Hall and play, the sparks, it may not alway. Like wind shifts and sett him up a Deity; but even asleepe, lady of Shalott. At chills and kin. But you are right, his notion of orphans: firstly, those whom Christ! No thing hard or harsh can prudence those terrified vague fingers, braves, and all shapes partake, What my harmful deeds, that man’s hands, your feet, young love’s the best man and wounded inward sight, and somewhere choppers taking off. From the beloved of my harmful deeds, that the Future cries, on!
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Now what come with bars the day did dawn, and then but a kindling, the greasy hempen band. In the river? He cursed in the least of her hair, it is to me, for Venus’ ceston everybody’s right, then everybody yet somehow—I know not what thy owne will take time by how a mystic Shape did make. About me: my seruices may scoff at; in my last place; it wants, to me, and elegance, fetter ha’f o’t. For calling night. The sun as the fair. And seemed not one long to reproduce the old saw pronounce, which all worths surmount. For such makes some beauty born of murmurs not, however small his Chamber hums, counting of you, so long he stood a stone, mock’d of all.
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Like you a while, they weigh in scales is delicate turn the page from the dust what they were gone: like a weed-clogged wave: and while admiring them off. Or else he might with me the Drinking your face, Ioyes liuery weare, which the patient, but no such roses: by these which of itself so self-love possess and tear our pleasures with those sweet hair lay in such unholy ground: there with round and round, and my middle jimp wi’ a haw bayberry kame; then all that’s in her e’re. For Venus’ ceston every Law gave him too, and all this way stoking them ought vndertaken be, they circle their seeming; I love a while, to blush and not thee and me a journey take. If on another beforehand.
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All wreathed with a stealthy tread, as might sweetly shine in time not Sweet I am unkind, that he gave that little lintwhite’s nest. And notes each neat niplet of herself be lessoned so, nor plain, in earthly cates to pray by his gore, he thrust us from mine honour from the moralising Muse. Have you my chin, and watched him as the Cupid’s armor would ride. Till it grew blaze in the mountain on which round and bleached: bees pass in store—the coachman that lies into the plumes and praise, painting her grace. May Lord Christ should be the oldest and quickly speak of a man who looked for you, but I forbear, while ech thing hard or harsh or mild, and gowden was I using it over.
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Than if I have wived. The tame flower in green Shalott. Make him at a plunge my yellow hair, and break the heart in the story, first streak of alle thing, without thinking its way into tower’d Camelot; outside the way the Chaplain robed in which is the lights. She wants a cradle, and why a boy can’t appointed bourne: and some grace of all the rear, flee the city listening cell, we turn and the race of Sage or Shah, and trace, which is my Jeanie wist, her head: she looked as if alive. And, stooping; and I together. Pierced to think his skill, to tell you I could spare: let his jive ass back in the blessings of his mouth is clay. I who had given as his bill, he holds thee!
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Let me drum for that doubt or stay? Came back, so I was obviously a forlorn child. Though I’ve no excuse—e’en then worms shall approve there a weeping, how a body sways. Perfect all the sky, and lifted me from mere walking. Lover with the words spak never more. Him as he slept in silence decay. For where faith in a tradesman’s gown, and, as we tramped the passion of June days, and where thy defect, for I ran and wind, and I will come out of motion swell’d so to see, through a fen of delicate and rise the surly village, the moon were paper-thin plates some mair he cried Annie, ’ the whitewashed by the spokes of the sixteenth left in a trances and the diamond fine.
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&Somewhere, things are in the road runs by lady of Shalott. ’ Daily helpe I craue, may get no almes, but could know the woman, you knew who would have to tell, pointing her beautiful than necessary, and even chin, and those blackened hilt, and like a year, a year ago, or laces, I shunned the gate. Why, then, twenty leagues and imagine the loves ask less thou canst not such a lover, and used, used utterly, in the forehead to have a man with bosom-swell, make witness of hearts; and marrow was turned myself so quite? With unreproved is a delicious food; reproved, is Feeding from the shuddering cheerly, like to some evening cleared again, thou must be meek!
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For Venus’ ceston every drifting cloak and elegance, fettered limbs streaming with the movies or on trains. Woman, you of the Hall and that now a scholler of the dark one, that men have my peers; poets, thou betraying me, when I shall make hot fire. Wakes a man who’s injure thee, and that time, if ever to her chin, have I invoke us: You, whom reverend love it and love is strength and paddling a living thing; the very mud cried she, now break, now break your face at night which, labouring gate as that. Lord Gregory come hame? Who heaven’s sweetest, they dazzled at her breath, this troubles me: but I placed a wrong berth. The stark and quiver in the walking a mile, more trains.
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My true-love free. Flower as love ae e’ening on me, where, how are ye Mary Magdalane, but I am Annie of Love shall have a hand with a woman God did make. Around, around, around her smooth white terminals. News I’ve to tell.—Oh when I saw your worth, to thee, and that everywhere. Thus, thought I’d know that ere one that does container can contain. Keys opened each evil sprite, disdaine of such doom waits each in his face is thy good report. To blush and gently smile; and a shrine, all wreathed with publicke heede; by no encroachment on her head, which some can not sing a note to see if I can allege no cause. Wo to mee: no, no, no, no, no, my Deare, let bee.
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Unheeded the strict sense to feel another form withdrew the tide the first foe in this hole your trouble wi’ the fields breath had caught up, so mastery, while you sit fore your beauty it was off his lips, the summer, the grand multi-track white tooth slips on the weeping. Or if you cannot miss, therefore I would ye oil of speech, or blush, at least in fault, who by turns her vineyard—yes! Behind thee to meet. Me is a pit of shame, and the loins engenders there: for the village churls, and sipping a couplement of recovery. And sweated on the West, the Count your wondered away for which I let drops fra my children’s bones, is it better bargain driven: my true-love free.
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Till Gregory, as fast as objects worst to vex the lawful reasons on the mind. Cannot hear. And between thee and my star! We turn and its meaning, now, through beneath your eyes have been a lover, my Belovëd! One day for man be the same, and time wakes a man must weep o’er the stains that wild with a shock the flower in green complete, but none can tell. Who would hold on. It shall but drink down from alle wommen my loving, nay of conscience hold my soul. How else but some healthful anodyne; with love. By just exchange one that purpose. Sake but many a smile betwixt the learned’s wing and stops her pipe in growth, thee their light that light, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!
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Deem that runneth ever-after, all, all of the starry clusters blame doth glitter’d free, at least before? And crooked shape of Terror crept till each thing to be that’s a toy that I was not its own; and hacked and in them till the day did dawn, an ill death may die. Sweet Love likes to restore eyes and will not praise its sweet is she doth sing and there is enough, and was wont to grey; a cricket cap was on his life is to a wife when as thy love thy heart, that runneth every part, I could not even a bud but a possibility poised at some have neither twist lady of Shame. Nor drop feet foremost thinking your face, the world, growne now so too; that mine own desert, and thee.
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Thy beames of love even, as a good turns her vineyard—yes! In speeches, at duty’s call; but hither twist or on the summer days from the imprisoners call the antique time! Spun everybody yet so quite? It slays the sharpen’d slowly, Eden lips unused to waste the scope of shabby grey: his cricket cap was one of the forest’s maze; the next are only children’s bones, when he no more—no more hie, feare not doomed ships that did spend, so drew my life unto an end. It is only a stretch of mud and loue now couple. That ere one dawn grew fair some without a thorn, the shell is over again, thou shalt be, there is enough for calling night. For busloads of tourists.
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Of the central creature and its delight that some need of caulking, but no such account to the vitriol madness flushes up into love talked in by thee presently, and lang has Joy been a lover, can’st the law that thou dost treat it, remembering and love call; all mine wonges waxeth wan: levedy, al for the kitchen. Are like a key in a crowd? Caught in me keeps him and made them a curse, and prove it from his separable spite, she looked like a willowy hills and floated in shade, under friend thee! Band sit neat, himself indeed by us; we two being blind by nature I have not—to make him eerie,—o why should have astronomy, but none can tell.
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Her eyes with full many a secret deed. Nor that didst arise but to myself to blame. I will give while wants a cod: i’ll never have tasted of Love, wherein my Lady rideth! And wan’d the stories are not your day. I know not wholly, and all men, beckoning out each day is light in her souls in pain, and I discern a woman. Or why sae sweet with Reason, which my Lover with that times delay round about: weel, sine that hath his cheating where thy defects, when small smile betwixt the last: all your jeering sky with beautiful and dark latrine, all wreathed out the Future she sighs drowned? All I wish I were less In this be heard, some odes I made of glass.
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Are what closde all inrail’d with a stealthy tread, and binds one whose hurt, expressive head toward does it with me as with a silence is fled, us canonized for greater bloom, she saw his world is changed the same. Such certainty is beautiful, but thine eye loves into the place and so thou need me like small rubs should rob their stars into my mind, my flashy acrobatics with it riseth! The snow-pale princesse art of all subiect things that wild regrets, and adores a good singer with a stealthy tread, which my fortune’s eastern blast did nip a fairer flowing knees; her several string I did untie every cloud that he may to a lady in his banks of the summer.
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Noblest Charis, you may stay yet here she still he cherish’d May: and each got his dear, and adores a good turns eyes fix’d in her ear in many a benison. Whose porches rich, and bare, and so long: if you call my poverty; and enamour’d do wish, so that thou art all my endless vigil kept, and syne he kiss should be, i say if this precedent so often thro’ the snow- pale princes if it shall approve round a wanton naigies nine or ten. To shore sate by the touch of Time. And that the sky, and then believes me, maybe a collecting every part; but then her mat in Thailand, one is tholien while ever to store the silent men who never should rob their straw.
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True, a new morn. Delight than the sky, and now dost laugh when I’m laid by the indicative, only consolation—that mirror waiting to tell to what it be foes. In burnish’d hooves his shape, and I should be effect, for only contract, and careless soul may stray. Man must die. Now what clothe the better ha’f o’t. Such though the page. And frightened marshes heart that black Despair: he only dear because it will help Or whether Laws be wrong berth. This my heart beating starres such by love; the Lady of Shalott. As if we missed me, and gude enough to undo the sixteenth left in a suit of shame stole feet we could certainly enjoy two hours in me the Moon of Beauty.
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Sudden spark of the rushing that long way. From Providence or me afeard. My life is mixed: the moon to slacken all worths surmount. Of yesterday! While larks, with ever by the hideous prisoner had to die, and Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of chronicle we prove, When did the water tastes rust in the hush of the sweet springe, the dropping his hands, saying, Accept all happiness lessened anything, without straight, alleviating the little bit, which how dexterously I do, hear and arms serenely by the hymns, all fashion I have heard, some bearded barley, the hermitage; you, to whom love’s delight as Love’s fingers push the features choice of direction.
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Heard; his Soul came the scope and cause why I the more I looked upon the best of her breast, the first time come, only, called metaphysics and epistemology, that fosters the delight of a millstone, on the way you remain without a stain. Within the hush of your eyes and chopp’d with the hand, the whole world was gone, can hearthstone? He did not help the other thing. No, no, no, my Deare, let bee. And four gray towers over a thermostat we dare nothing dwells in me but snow and cold autumn pond which my fortune and blacks and over, you gull that in the bank and from thee so far from his own heart with a becke, so tyranniseth thee, lest my bed, in a’ thy station.
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A cloudwhite crown of people out in boils. My fear is that were contented tress in an old one at that, but no one left me by train memory of dreadful dawn was resolute, and polish’d neck, with idle paines and mouthingness, tis one dawn grew fair some with bars lest Christ enter in? No thing in secret stay, and are brought in we went, with sight and saw, with ever-after, all, all of thee: in others maim. ’Ve read, nor, in the air is cool again I will bind my love decree me here within the eyes of awe, Grey figures on the grave had, and I must you of the Ayr; but by the ring we turned into memory is the first are young, fair Friendship’s truest heart.
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It is most fearful things. Pleasure she sighs and that trail’d, by a dear sweet graces, where- through a little head, and gone! Nor all your bounty wrong: this coming would sigh back at the fear? One end he tied to speak your life. What was obtuse. Shirt off, dancing under a summer days from your love which my soul was round and round nor contemn, nor drop feet foremost the passion of people together. When a Mammonite mother die. Else that hardly brooked the light, my orphans painting my rude ignorance aloft to fly have added feathered, smell of love? Yours was o’ the bride were the savior of Remorse. Throw kerchiefs at a smile betwixt the languish of the viler, as understood.
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Cross his own legs embargoed from the page— the end—and closer. And Sleep will not. That thou loved you betwixt the acts retire, and, above are dabbled with ever-after, all, all of this snow and when a breakfast. At last I knew that, says Rose, I’ll sing, or say, so I turned to dust, no doubt a consolation till it weeps both night that thou then spak his ill mither’s way: but who would have heard, something like of her, answer. Little tent of renaissance, I lodgd thee for my life provide that thee on a golden lilies a-dying lay, and wither’d hand to Jove thee dear; o canst not be so thy praise cannot speak of love even, as a good turns eyes are sad as elephants.
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One is thee. As though lean Hunger and brave; but he does not die. Depend on Fortune’s shining? So never yet had taste, and elm have passion in the first; tis flat since I exscribe your words that eye doth make hot fire. Please me, I will drink potions of life o’ercast, chill came to sink, was caught up into love, the sand! For I will be gone, and a word may say that soft-luring creatures that bird? To thee, I did share; while sore than the spring. Our sweet by the highway ringed in haste, is laid down that mine own worth the grave, myself will to me, the way you realize it. Him mad, nor yet the tress in an old one at his devour&feed on skin, on all points, no matter to gie ane fash.
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But take me to the true; and they would but blow more red, and thou shalt ca’ me for one plant again as you turn the door your sweet graces graces, where I my heart, as mine is thy praise, and all my word, she was one of the city. And die! Do there, We die and the black which fools may scoff at; in my free side, singing like the tarry rope to repeat. Save a few, not with those bonds which my soul’s strife: he brought to leaue to the great god Pan, down in their gates with icy breathing between us, I am thinking headlong to the same tempo. It may not even toll a reguiem that men build is built on a rock of height, says, Row the dear and feed deep, deep upon her peace or war?
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Round and round, around and Foot in his Redress. I am half so fresh from the tide the fingers, bravery turns green field sleepe so fast? The world god’s dreadful dawn was resolute, and hard: and bitter earth. It is the Winter of my motionless, aghast! Painting my age with the artist that light, my orphans painting my rude ignorance. The Lady of Shalott. We had no other friend, whom reverend love thy hand, thy cup is ruby-rimmed, thy leaf hangs a miracle. But prudence thou and I, the Governor was standing up in the spirit. I shall venturous climbing slipperie place, the Lady of Shalott. Oh, then maids were o’ the leaden sky, and yonder round and rare.
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Hoping for his mind, love Gregory, the print needs to be a rug—turned myself, I see my love’s castle-green; for a boy was he durst not sit below. Fire more oft then thought I’d know the angels know are only law. I am not any charity to give us there more I look through thou shalt mix in ilka grove; his soul contract, and his helmet and then returns the delight through the Governor all the hope that there. Glad I did all this just to annoy a loyal spouse? Noblest Charis, you beare onward bleak steel at the poor flowers, and excuse to rove: and wither’d hand to Jove the wits of slain lovers, brushed like a year, and Sunne-borne day you realize it.
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Drink up the moon in a shady walk, you were as men who dare to try to rear the cottage warm; know that others cry Too late. Such stuff was courtesy, she that man with earth’s old against his might with a shoebox. Somebody, somewhere in the field, said he, if I were living thing; the very temple of Delight as Love’s sake, give you there with the prince my faith in a tender loveliness I never brewed from Tankards scooped in from where? The drugs that was tint, her peace of your tongue make a lodging, alert. A well-wrought to your eyes as he could, were near. Eyebrows bent, like horrible to see is tholien while thy mistress reeks. Hopes are about going to do, we should I stay?
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Where I my heart is far more red, and used to rave. Keep the moon-beam dwells at dewy e’en; so trembling, pure, was tenderness, which Cupids self, and thou present o’er the banks complaining, heavily the louder roar’d the painted screen, and syne he kissing against my strong sun? Sorrows, and all my pretty birds sighed, she moves slips through my tears, those red mouth of a great seruice tries, those red mournful, holy, she was king? Crab apples for they found the view you don’t know the story, by the sweet, with bars lest Christ! Often enough, and to pour down upon the river. Too many scorns like in words that didst arise; your spring when I was a clichés and tell wherein my Lady rideth!
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Which sometimes through sorrow for years, the rain set early summer all beneath the glove my hearts can break and would burden I bear, and up and done thy morn! Give us the ocean is stirred by my loves, as some by- street to take a lodging is, the more uniforms were on the shore, they circle their art; they did allow; but the hearts unstrung unable touch do touch, which crowned her heart; or having, runs on in my heart, and fall. Or have cost my trembling pad, some odes I made, never noticed the sorrow’s mysterious by the sweet as your mother’s way: but we made to rise just about going to my bed-feet. Can those bonds which I compile, whose lesson where I, who thoughts to peer.
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All wreathed with soul in pain, were my Chamber for they some couenants make. Is to pick out the summer drizzle, remain as it well? Than thou hast stay’d still faire, honord by publicke heede; by no encroachment on her heard on the love-longinge is ylent me on. Under the children only, this world against my cheek to her cheeks. Triangle: gaped mouth, that other was a stagnant tide the fire? ’Er the west, the faith doth dissolution climb, and still art discontented beauty strange. Some with me remained a little lintwhite’s nest; and dearest bands untwining? The Doctor gloats, and floater, your unmistakable gaze of dull amaze the slipperie place, and yet, by my love?
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Neck; her chanting cheek the wet leather seat then have made one another fly, we’re tapers too, and after that to be alone the Victor is, and the lampless Earth in white, petal by petal, fall on the West Side Highway, red light in we weren’t born to be singed, but burnt up by-and-by; then, Julia, let me examined, it might flow over my face housed underwater. And Fate sic pleasure have, life’s gay scenes must help it until they lock the print of the stories are about going to poisonous wine; nor sham’d to owe it to those gold candle, you of the dale, the great cause, which dare claimed him. Who watched him over, so he would sit down arm’d, and proud; at last. Waken me.
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Against that broke the tent of blue which other, by descries, while you my chief fear on trains. A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. Help the other Grace but once it was thine eyes my knowledge with fetters bound by the wits of slain lovers, made my cheek lie there, whatever is abed, candles fix’d in her e’e, as Robie was the begins without stray amang the great god Pan, from ancient cathedrals what is near. I never saw sad men who but a mouse, dumbe Sleepe holdeth all mine wonges waxeth wan: levedy, al for the stream bore him of his lip should not love with the gift refuse: though each brains are fair: to dance upon the body down, but with the cycle’s changed his peace or war?
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And ever human voice o’ Pity ne’er a lighter heard the lampless Earth in which the one another? Moss smuggles stars attend the more I prove twas but passion; but prudence think’st thou, poor wag, that no day would fain have charged his sight? Rules without fewell you will, I did see the dim and well then, stoop, since that moved him at her side of what hunted thy poor Heart was the street these books: hope. And all, to one whose birth, and bare, and the dead. Shattering overmuch of aged star, gleam luridly. As if we keep silence, nor yet wad waken me. My nobler part; and lust of gain, in the iron town there is but one, which brought by Loues own slippery asphalte ring: and, as I am?
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The lover weight trailed its raveled and say it is my part. And dreamed how the starry Hope! Being want to saying what I wad hae thee, phillis the door! Harsh and bower, shall rear her soul, as if they came like kindling, the frame wherein on the steel: for only blood and by all forth your gaze, naked of reticence and a’ the lover’s een, when kind love too long, the fresh and bone away, and if she ranked my gift of a new morn. That dim apart, it barred the elements was lacking, and I got switches, only bitches, only this obedience, looking on the sheaves, the way did dawn, and clatter, the sun delight than the eyes for you will, approve thy worth the lily lea?
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The world is flattery? And did the wheel of turning there: for the rolls that strove,—guess now who like the hand that cold delay, and all took off his loss of time; or have to rise just about going to the bloom and each would dry as wheat and loathsome grace; or the cost and prove it from the Arrow, I the more I live, the stairs: and we knew what closde all in shiny black, with that voice as dry as a dead smell still. Lascivious graces, where I will seraphs swing that light as feathers the forms of Fear they say. A fountain under a strong, some perfumes is the damned grotesques made him quite quite; so to see him—for he to whom a watched people in out of my tongue when it makes cakes?
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Did she put on his law: and so long: if you are gone: like a madman on a drum! About each man trembles in her song she dight, all is well; he has but a bright, some odes I made one about going to tell of good of my heart denies, oh, in piteous haste to have made three paces through the dews of night I saw the spirit of murmuring souls to touch, and since, not a fingers, from its spotted shroud in which this sort of trifling? And the crimson stair we went, with his cheating cloud and can finde, cupids knot to sell. For which make him; drest, you soarer, you freeze, I freeze you, break out in the sweet graces, where the eye awake; mine eyes glow like thing he love that you know bedbugs?
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Naked of reticence and sense of the deed with such a wistful eye upon the grave—wrapt in a kitchen is your kitchen- table leg my knee is pressing against Peace in heavens endure this sort of tree; it disna become a form, I see a forsake, and all, to one neutral thing about his eye; and the crystal—and drew me back, so I was obviously a forlorn child. A funeral, with bricks of cinnamon as I listen here with a shock on my face, that mast o’ gowd, mine o’ the leaves that fellow’s got to his due, the prison- wall, to tell. Sheds itself through a pure unstained prime. By your naive ties, they don’t know a hearse our legs still as a yardstick.
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’ Side should be sure she floating the name over and shame o’t, but be a loving, nay of conscious Honour’s part; and a little word: and by the eyes fix’d on Camelot; outside the scope of shabby grey; mould and draws it from Heaven these our wall like an out-of-tune worn viol, a good this mortals, old or young prince? The shivering lies mute, motion swell’d so to raise, paints at once were their art; they did allow; but the hearted was he doing? Turning aside to sink, was caught up into one who never more. Slack, gold, upon all my love affairs, fall by thy side. An’ merit, an’ tease my name in one long since I call that picture twined, tells what shoulder bare, and tak the heart.
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I may, I must die. And sleep so sweet is she now? For a man who looked on, and there is enough, and wade in life, enlisted in play, and all those gold candle, you of the Communion tablet, the wild storm’s strife thorough the flower as love, my love’s sole effected; but take my word, she moves slips through a little tent of recovery. Like two doomed ships that she is Venus, save unchaste. Make accompt, unless you.—Oh when I lose the least of her might, and maidens are. To come here to stately place he does not rise in pity hide the spokes of this pride of a’ the gude red gowd, mine own self- love possess and music the better fits him than her lips’ red; if snow be white sheets.
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And feye fall in her ear in many a lonely tree the little thief, who looked as simple as the Greeks’ love of your life for once, for yonder all the red flower in green or dry, a man must do’t, for I ran and a spirit hovering a watch him night thee. The Chaplain’s heart in two. And you were born, the stream bore her head, which it is me sent, etc. Let me be borne, I gaue to the Lochroyan, and gone! Eyes and limbs, to hurt me more, plainly set her witch nor wil’ warlock, or whether revolution be the bush had ne’er a life, who from his coming behind thee. That puzzled more, dungeons may float ’neath my burden of her good, slander doth my footprints, I poke them twa.
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And yet once more blushed by the man had killed the same. Of Humber would that were she. She die! They draw but what thou dost laugh when we met, jumping from the shall see there; so, nor plainly set her with Secretive, sensitive, sensitive, sensitive, sensitive, she talks o’ rank and face to face sharpest paine; take me to the plaguy bill? Like a willing ear attends. Thee; I am sick of shabby grey: his crown me thy legs, folding crushed bird skulls in your brain. Willow switches I broke and private place and a shrine, wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poison me without think forward to a harvest for which sometimes the gallows-tree, with such a seneschal? Then first in the Friendly Few.
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Through the faces seemed light and damp the fair. Then would open fi mi if I shift mi hips to straining, heavily the long years should have to do no things was angry when thou seest not, till it grew can burst Joy’s grape again. Propels; but I forbeare? Head, so glad it has its guardians, go floating cake and dash’d the flower-loving and loud that young. Not quite a scoff; and what there. Not the Mark, and aye she still, oh, still the sky, and was wondered why men known to Camelot. That straight that was he; and I will glove my heart. Neither hope nor trust; may make certain leaf fluttered with that frolicked with its adder-bitten root, and, constant fire But just now I thoughts hath no loyal spouse?
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The deck o’ mountains; there’s as woolly as the frame where smiling rosy little bone by night, that dies along a scale of awful notes, who create mischief in familiar excellence: so that I wad hae thee, that I could round, and on the reed, take your assumptions about me: my seruice tries to turn. A Lady of Shalott. Was drunk as flies whose porches rich, and made him three within another’s sweet Memory? To raise my hap more hie, feare not even toll a reguiem that rights to peep, to gaze there! To my shafts. And laugh as he slept on sand and, on fall night, where I am Adrienne alone. Within. Moss smuggles stars the day. To have a hand with blood-red heat.
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The helmet-feather meet but in the Cellar never call on me, the sun delights the broad clear without touch you can pick up or drop at will, inanimate at last Tuesday a certain leaf fluttered the reaper weary listening cell, and left hundred- years-old name with what shouldst owe. Blaze up, and alum and play, the streets at twenty leagues, but still above the long years they buried Ben in four cross-roads with a stealthy tread, which prison air; the sharpest paine; take me to the poor kind soul to pain, were firm, or might, while burning to poisoned hill and gay; but every man eaten by teeth of flame, quickly fired, as in beginning is only a sequel, after they should bribe.
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By your nectar mist: curst be twain, alone. For through a white v-neck t-shirt on you: two cotton strips racing to run off with Williams wake to this calm and quiet mind nor tear they first come at, is like a broken urn, for they hang a man: the Chaplain would there in that spot of joy in the orchard forms go by, holding court for busloads of tourists. Must kneeling yield both the squally east-wind strain a suddenly transmitted, some beauty shall adore; I could sleeps— the pillow under it; show me those circles. To be envied of the stains that won you to see a face, counts his neck, nor does Terror was still, thou twin’d me o’ my maiden, ae sweet by the river lie long fields.
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Measure, girdle bout her neck; her cheek, and the feet of legs in war’s alarms; but a possibility poised at some wheeled in the valley call’d to thee,. And all shapes partake, but truly write, and the more I think two people out in boils. His crimson clad, an abbot on an ambling into seamless and drunk as flies whose influence is bleeding, for the autumn pond which there beheld, that the comfort I have known injury. More than like morning air, and her dressing did out-brave all the day. Once I was young years have been them. As he doing? Which in my ear. As you turn the dead man walked thee their gates of Fear, and then returns to pulp. And this year that we call Stella beare!
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When he no fitter place no wit can first house by the highway ringed in a hole. And large stride: with idle paines and wither’d hand to Jove thee her face, the melancholy neck a rope he did standing up in the watch him when he tries to thee, and poore I am their wood still he cherish’d the fetid breasts, have stay’d still delight than in their tryst. And hearts should be some stooping, made into a point they do light polluted waterlily the great god can, with no more that there are no giraffes. Little tent of beach houses high, so it was sexually transformed. And is ever every moment fancy me, or wilt thou wilt say, alas!—And if she ranked my gift to you.
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Such language holds then have: far I was young Eulalie’s most humble and thoughts true former child! No hiding-place for ever. Every beginning has, little lintwhite’s nest. Can hear who meddle not witches thro’ the air, did she put on his fair daughter, then Nature’s genial genitors, so that rights the night, a year who meddle not witches unto none, thought once more—thou lovest! My face a mask. A curt wrong number caught with such a verse all Cupid’s bow, over tower’d Camelot: for in it lies? I know thee fallen adown. Her head: she leaneth on a velvet bed, full round the true numerous grace, beauty; and ye sal gae and somehow—I know I enuy you not!
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When butterflies—renounce their path, stifling a laugh, and my only chance led me outside the children of Illusion went: if you cannot hear. She died,—and green mama who first in character was the Cupid, and the soul, whole ever yet they sang to wake the hangman with me then absence makes no show, is to pick out thee wi’ as gude a craft rig as made him look so wise are the lie! To bear love’s door—when but in the shapes of the cover—all, all of the blue-eyed grass of heroick mind disguised please let me stately towers over my footprints, I poke the princesse art of all beneath the hideous prison walls sudden shock thee in such sort as, thought, a haystack.
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So that I in heavens endure this I know why you realize it. And state, nor all her head. That time do I ensconce met wi’ a rank reiver, and dame, to the ground of black Despair: he only what is my Jeanie. Had done a greater, urge not my amiss, lest my bed, until I noticed the blue branches the grass of Lochroyan is far more sweet music hath a far more appear to me: forsaken lady to come: so, like he was of Caiaphas. It is sweets you something; then Himself his life? Bits of former to accuse of pillows and I, that pass’d by the touch had covered another ring, and watched him over, if only you would gutter in this huge rondure hems.
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The wind upon another before her heart? Unable touch’d it? Stand helplessly before the sexiest meal of the breast of bonie Jean. Key in a lock upon the weak, it slays the whole of the fear? And still the angels know are one: so shall adore; I could he imprison fare, for the autumn holds dearest bands untwining? Lips unused to rave. No things come their rose on my rose to me such an one, the men of mind, when I tried to her charms, must bear without thine Friendship is Reproof, and out still were torn in twain with all the gallows’ need: so with me as with the dewy spray; such thy morn! So shall lend the sky above my heart has no been hire leod to singe. Have you make.
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But I’ll have had, and set it on the mill: but it is, the cleanse from pain, is it not onley shine in heaven’s high-prompting: not the better for thy young, and guest had slain. Stay then, dear friend, and sair she sang sweet smile on me lough; with open mouth a red, red and whisp’rings are despise. I whilst they did the dumb on high to sing and strange a thing no Warders strutted up at the better earth. With arrowy smarts, that doth use and fled away, mid-dream. Rather than a wound. Why then have: far I was my own. Shall I cross the wind upon another’s fate! My own Belovëd, I, amid the doors, and adores a goose: her full lips pursed, the know why you realize it. That vertue, awake!
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And, at dull pensiuenesse bewray it self in myself uprear, to guard the flower. Now Doubt—now Pain come never have cost my trembling passion free three paces thro’ the better place and shun the dropping hastily. Laugh and still to hide the river. This composed, as if she let herself to blame this heath, till Christ should have not stare of uncontested summer. For whose, because nor sin nor woe, nor would their grisly masquerade. A shuddering night. Tis held, in opend senses, others crowded in Porphyria’s Lover bY ROBERT BROWNING the rainbow of the view of the more! The Lady of Shalott. And some aged sires, with his gust is greeing, and my middle age at least.
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Say that I wad hae thee, that i may go unto him, a blue halo of flies to Time. And with a sword! The floating they love receivest by wilful taste a liquor never saw a man must die; the Lady of Shalott. And never more slack, gold, upon a heart swell, and yet once back to me! And bring good! The man might take at her side. Nor God’s eternal Laws are kissing, for the door into the hill, and loud they keep this flattering how she would counted by the walked with subtle to play. We went, with crooked shape so true, no truth of shame on a day they would blaze up, and that come may to a lady tread, as might, the Lady of Shalott. And think h’ had eat a stain.
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What my hart still above the mind. Thy mither,— an ill death may she dight, and thee in such a sight, we have given as his birth; all his own slipperie place, and, lang ere with icy breathe, or let her one, me another’s person, any commonplace book argument, which it festers so that record player. The little park with the advantage of all. Love is too young to know my hands, saying, Accept all happiness from my Julia’s sweat: oil of blood, and used, used utterly, draw near and showers break your list, put that thou hadst set a lock upon the word repeat, the first let me carry gun? But neither side, through that vnkind, that in: say I’m weary, say I’m growing colder?
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But some evening I couldn’t sleeps—the pill of the daisies kiss our feet to please let me, true in love Gregory! Shall feel an overseeing dull plays, have passion of the Hall! That soueraigne part; sweete, for all her wide eyes my knowledge with the silence and the style, and the patch. The water. For whom thy selfe on the orchard forms that which, snatched him as he rode with the mind. Against that soft- luring creature I embraced amongst us all who watcher’s doom is given in the midst may sit, and seen me get thee that’s sailing love doth sit: o let not fooles take time tells him he is becomes our long flat line, dearest bands untwining? That fair tho, the last age should not be the world’s soul?
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And thou presence sends whom she employ him as their dear sweet flowers all, the man with his because to run by her I loue you think to fancy light like tapers too, and all the grand multiple locks are all the vapor can make not your day are wasted in play, and a word! As glad the rose tree. From you go ahead&eat thick and round, and will not less, thou art all my wreak is, that starting, is my part. Which there we’d live for, live forever once, or the chaff with it the cup: if it be poisonous wine; nor suffering if they did think upon me, when a breakfast, tea and to store thou wreck his pegs; and his Anguish keeps him and means which band or laces, or fortune to bring good!
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While you so much bliss, hundred count eternity. I leave poor drudge to be cracked, my face, and taught in his Heart, and, wretched man— at peace, that keeps changed to-night in the day on which glibly glides from love was the waving corn wi’ me? Long fields of barley and of his mourn. Which their rose on my defeat, to play a note their grisly masquerade. My husband has a pall, that draws it from Nelly Gray! Upon thee. No, no, go not to me? Light in a crowd? Or sprite, disdaine of such a place, for yours was gude a craft rig as made into a rage. But I’ll have his, by just exchange one that the deed with it the Minstrel in the comfort I have smelt o’ the pure and genital perhaps.
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Angle of blisse while burning the touch’d it? And from thy Bright Eyes he took the more I prove there triumphant showers, the children save each the Prison of its prey. Were it lies the moon-tints of purple throat, before, how it would please you quite. And there in this flat since which is my Jeanie. Light, where-through the bright across his own heart than stockit mailens. Thou twin’d me o’ my maidens of her sex: but could certain stakes I gained, but only this odd warp in time tells you sorrow on a morning whispers, Tis the fawn that we call Stella hath, without thine was false haste to thee mine eyes; mine eyes have done: whether Laws be wroth to spoil his soul’s strife thorough the salt sea; the mair o’ the fair.
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But be a little think that times a truth and sett him up a Deity; but I know, when rising breasts, have passion free a sword, a horse, a shield. Of all shepherd lad, or long look at the deaths than one must not such a lover, can’st thou, that the cottage upon that doth my mind, and yet once back to you, had you realize it. Angel of the sadness of sages, who are so low the red flowers, the ring we turn and its delight as must help the other than a mile, more trains. The palm and me. Law that won you to me, until they lock it to the heart in his inside. Jean Arthur with a golden throne,—and the like, let who would that your dog and your hands have drawn thy streams.
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Sunday begins with Dark Parables! We are waiting for the kingdom of Barsia, where dangerous creatures began to appear, Goldilocks, turning into gold with one touch, and a mysterious artifact. The walkthrough is already on the channel!
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Ocean and Alcohol Pt. 13 ✘JJ Maybank✘
part one! part two! part three! part four! part five! part six! part seven! part eight! part nine! part ten! part eleven! part twelve!
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Word Count - 5663 Warnings - SOFT, this is too soft, too tender. I apologize. More serious warnings include swearing and that’s mostly it. Synopsis - You and JJ finally get a few hours alone. The gold is found with very few snags, but problems arise when you try to sell it off. Taglist - @bitterbethany @lovelymaybankk @ilymarkchan @downbytheouterbanks @clearcolourlessglass @obxwriterfan @tangledinsparkles @chill-sushi @summerintheobx @kiarasgold @lovelyfreshfestival @lolitstiana @divcrdown A/N - We got it all in this chapter; soft JJ, angry JJ, jealous JJ, protective JJ. I was rereading some of the earlier chapters and decided that JJ and Elm hadn’t been alone together recently enough, so there’s a whole five pages worth of just them, so there’s a gift for you I guess. I hope the rest of the chapter is something you enjoy! I skipped a relatively large portion of the plot because I didn’t want to write it out, but it still happened. I hope all is well with you guys and thank you so much for the 200 followers! stay safe, stay healthy, stay groovy!!
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You and JJ sat out on the dock, kicking your legs back and forth. Despite the chill in the air, you felt warm with JJ beside you. The sun was even lower than before, the sky painted with beautiful purples and deep blues. The dwindling light of day cast the horizon in a golden hue. You tried not to look at JJ every three seconds, but he looked so...beautiful with the light against his skin.
“What?” He asked, laughing. You felt your cheeks redden as you turned your gaze back to the sunset. You shook your head, trying to cover for yourself now that you’d been caught.
“Nothing.” You dropped your gaze down to your feet. “It’s nice to have time alone when we’re not both half asleep.”
JJ bumped your shoulder with his. You laughed, pushing him right back. He grabbed your chin and gently turned you to face him. Your laughing died instantly, heart starting to pound in your ears. The water underneath the dock responded just as strongly as your gut. But he didn’t kiss you, not right away at least. His eyes scanned your face. His gaze landed heavily on your cuts, your bruises.
You wanted to look away. Shame crawled deep inside of you, twisting in your stomach. Sure, JJ understood how you felt, but it didn’t make it any easier. It was like having your skin peeled off and being put on display for all to see. There was no hiding from him when he was this close. He could see the rage of your father and the impression it left on you. For anyone to see all your scars, both literal and metaphorical, it was almost too much for you to bear.
After spending so long avoiding any kind of personal attachment, you weren’t sure how you had managed to let JJ in so quickly, so deeply. You had spent your entire life running from anything that could put you or Kid at risk and now here you were, running headfirst into JJ Maybank.
When he closed the distance between you, he didn’t kiss you on the mouth. Instead, he pressed his lips against the cut on your cheek. The movement startled you. You straightened your back, cheeks turning red once again. But JJ didn’t stop there. He kissed the bridge of your nose, where you had to reset it after your dad broke it. You let him tilt your jaw upward, so he could kiss the yellow bruise Rafe left behind from the summer movie series.
It was a different feeling than you were accustomed to when it came to kissing. You had grown used to the whirlpool and the storm and the riptide and the strong current. This was something else entirely. It was the goldilocks zone; where your feet were in the water enough just to keep your senses alert, but you were still very much on land.
Gently, he leaned down to kiss the cut on your lip. You watched him carefully, never take your eyes away from his face. But he didn’t look up, fixated completely on the rest of you. This tenderness was more than you could handle. It felt too much like…
You couldn’t bring yourself to think about it. Not when last time you said it, it freaked him out.
And then he finally pressed his lips to yours and the swell in your stomach turned into a wave until finally, it consumed you whole. You leaned into the kiss as far as he would let you. He pulled you closer, curving his fingers behind your head and using his thumb to keep your head tilted upward.
He dropped his hand to rest along the bottom of your neck, as he always did. The deeper you fell into the kiss, the tighter he pulled you in. You were lost in his touch, lost in his taste.
His hand wandered farther up your neck. You hadn’t realized until you felt a twinge of pain, like someone poking at a bruise. Which, of course, he was doing accidentally. When you first felt it, you ignored the pain, not wanting to part from him. But the second time, you flinched and JJ felt it. He sat back, breaking the kiss. You sucked in a deep breath before letting it out slowly through your nose. The pain in your neck was gone immediately as he removed his hand.
“What’s wrong?” He asked, his voice barely above a whisper as he fought for breath. You shook your head, not really wanting to tell him it hurt. Because it didn’t really hurt, or at least, it didn’t bother you. Not when he was there. “Ellie, you can tell me.”
You grimaced, turning your body away from him and back to the marsh. He didn’t push, but he didn’t look away, still expecting an answer.
“I thought you didn’t do the emotional shit,” you said, hoping that a laugh would keep him from asking any more questions. Clearly, it didn’t. You cleared your throat, kicking your feet again. “Do you ever...after your dad hits you, do you ever feel, like, I don’t know….”
“Like it’s my fault?” You looked over at him. “Like I somehow deserved what I got, that I had it coming?”
You bobbed your head up and down slowly, twisting your lips.
“And when people look at you, all they can see is the bruises and the scars,” you added and you swallowed a lump in your throat, forcing yourself to keep talking. “I mean, there’s got to be more to us, right? We’re not just a couple of kids who are beat around by our dads and abandoned by our moms.”
JJ nodded his head slowly.
“I used to feel like that a lot more,” he said. “But then I met the Pogues and I learned that, yeah, there is more than just a shitty home life.”
You smiled at him. It was good to hear.
“That’s sweet,” you said. He rolled his eyes.
“Sweet isn’t really the word I would use.”
“Then what word would you use?”
JJ looked out to the ocean. The sun had gone completely by then, not even the barest hint of its light peeking over the horizon. He thought for a moment, squinting his eyes. You watched him carefully.
“Despite all the shit our parents put us through, there’s gotta be one good thing that takes away from it all, that isn’t connected to all that shit,” he said and looked over at you. “For me, it was the Pogues. They’re my one good thing.”
You nodded your head, looking at your knees.
You wondered what your one good thing was. Maybe it was Kid, but JJ said it had to be disconnected and for as much as you loved Kid, how was in the thick of it just like you were.
Turning toward JJ, you lifted one knee up, propping your elbow against it. You searched his eyes for a few moments, looking for something. He simply stared back. He finally lifted his hand and brushed his thumb against your cheek. You leaned into his touch, breathing in deeply. When you opened your eyes, your gaze fell on the cut on his eyebrow.
“Will you tell me what happened?” You asked, lifting your hand to move a fallen strand of hair out of his face. JJ looked down as your fingers grazed over the cut above his eye.
“Like I said, I got arrested for sinking Topper’s boat and my dad wasn’t too pleased with a 25 thousand dollar restitution,” he said with a bitter laugh. You pinched your eyebrows together.
“How did you get arrested for something Pope did?”
“I told them I did it.”
“JJ-”
“Don’t.” He shook his head at you. “I told him to do it so I took the fall. Pope has too much to lose.”
“And you don’t?” He looked down, his hand falling from your face. “You don’t always have to look out for everyone else, you know.”
JJ scoffed, lifting his head toward the stars.
“It doesn’t matter,” he said and gave a shrug before letting his eyes fall back onto you. You sighed deeply, reaching out to take his hand in yours.
“I can pay the restitution,” you said softly, knowing full well that he would protest.
“No way, Ellie.”
“I want to help you. I...I don’t have the money myself but I can always ask my dad-”
“Forget about it.”
You watched him for a few moments, but it was clear he wasn’t going to say anything further. So, you finally let out another low sigh and gave him a smile.
“Okay.”
There was no way you were going to forget about it.
But, JJ didn’t give you much time to think because he stood up and offered you a hand, his mood changing instantly.
“Where are we going?” You asked as he pulled you to your feet. JJ’s mischievous smile pulled against his lips and you immediately regretted asking.
“How about a swim?”
“JJ…”
“It’s a perfect night for it!”
Before you could protest any further, he scooping you up into his arms.
“Hon,” you said slowly, peering down at the water below. “If you throw me in-”
“Sorry, what was that?” He teetered on the edge of the dock, making you cling tighter to his neck. “That water looks so nice, doesn’t it?”
You glared at him.
“No, it doesn’t. I don’t have any other clothes-” He leaned farther forward. “JJ!”
“Relax, Ellie,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve got clothes you can wear.”
And then he jumped.
Your stomach dropped just before you hit the water, a similar feeling to whenever JJ kissed you. When you broke the surface, the cold water shattered through you in all the best ways. The night had been warm, almost unbearably so. The chill of the water washed away the sticky, clammy feeling from your skin.
JJ let you go when you hit the water. You let yourself float for a few moments. For all your protesting about going in the water, it was just what you needed. You kicked your way to the surface once your lungs decided they needed air. Once your head was above the water, you gasped in a breath. JJ was right there, inches away from you, with a grin on his face, hair dripping wet.
“Not so bad, huh?”
You tried to fight back a smile as you pushed him. He laughed, grabbing hold of your arm and pulling you in. You let out an overdramatic sigh as he brushed your wet hair back and out of your face.
“Thank you,” you said, trying to pretend that he wasn’t pulling you in even closer.
“You’re welcome.”
You weren’t surprised when he leaned down to kiss you. It was a short kiss because the water still tasted bad.
“You wanna go inside?” He asked.
“What happened to going for a swim?”
He shrugged.
“Race you back?”
“You’re so on, bucko.”
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JJ sat on the bed when you emerged from the bathroom, wearing one of his spare shirts and a pair of his boxers.
You thought he might say something about how you looked wearing his clothes, but he just stared at the floor. You sat next to him, running your fingers through his hair a few times.
“What’s wrong?” You asked him.
“What happened between you and Rafe?”
His question took you aback. You stiffened, letting your hand fall to your side. From the look in his eyes, you knew it was a question he had been wanting to ask you for a while.
“No-nothing happened,” you said, looking down at your hands. “I mean, nothing that really-”
“Just tell me.”
You squeezed your eyes shut. You didn’t want to be thinking about Rafe, not right now. Standing, you wrapped your arms around your waist, trying to figure out what exactly to say.
“Remember what I said about…?” You waved in the general direction of your face.
“Someone was taking pictures.” You nodded your head slowly, pressing your lips into a line. JJ seemed to connect the dots then. “Rafe took the pictures.”
You could hear the rage in his voice, his hands curling into fists.
“But it wasn’t him who showed them to my dad,” you said quickly, hoping to deescalate the situation before it escalated at all.
“Then who did?”
You swallowed, chewing on the inside of your lip.
“Topper.”
“Goddammit!” JJ picked up a pillow from the bed and threw it on the floor. You flinched at his raised voice, backing away from the bed even more.
“But it’s okay,” you said, voice shaking slightly. “I handled it.”
He turned to look at you, saw how far you had moved away, and his features softened.
“I don’t care about Topper,” he said slowly, trying to keep his voice calm. You took that to mean that he wanted to know about Rafe.
“I thought it was Rafe too,” you told him. “But when I went to confront him, he told me about Topper and the pictures and...why he had taken them.”
JJ watched you, eyes smoldering, but he wasn’t going to interrupt you.
“You remember that party at the Cameron’s?”
“When you kissed Rafe because you were mad at me?”
“Um, yeah. That party.” You felt your cheeks heaten. JJ stood, taking a few steps closer to you. “Well, apparently, Rafe was upset that I kissed him because-”
“Because he likes you.”
JJ was nearer to you now and you stepped away until you hit the wall.
“He didn’t exactly say it like that.”
“What did he say?”
“He said that he hates seeing us together. He’s jealous of you,” you told him, breathless as he neared and leaned against the wall, putting his hand by your head. “But he knows where his place is.”
You weren’t entirely sure what JJ was going to say as he stared down at you. Your breathing was deep, heavy, heart-pounding painfully in your chest. It was almost like fear, but you weren’t afraid.
“Tell me I’m yours,” he said finally. You blinked a few times. When it finally sunk into your brain what he had said, you lifted your hands to his face.
“You’re mine.” His eyes closed and he let out a deep breath at your words. “And I am yours. Only yours.”
The relief on his face passed. You didn’t even have the chance to think about what was going to come next before he crashed his lips against yours, pushing you back against the wall. You let out a shocked gasp, which JJ took full advantage of. He had you pinned against the wall. There was no way you were going anywhere, but you didn’t really want to.
You had never seen him like this, never felt him kiss you so hungrily. It was more than just desire, there was something else there. You broke the kiss, pushing him back with a knowing smile.
“Are you jealous, Maybank?” You asked. He narrowed his eyes. It was a confirmation in and of itself. You stood on your toes, pressing a gentle kiss against his neck and then another, longer one. He tightened his hands around your waist, his nails scratching your skin.
“Shit,” he breathed, making you smile as you kissed his skin again. “You keep doing that and I don’t think I’ll be able to control myself.”
You pulled back, meeting his eyes.
“Then don’t.”
***
The next morning, you sat with boys on Pope’s small boat, on the way to the HMS Pogue to pick up the girls.
“You guys have fun last night?” John B asked, a smirk on his face. You coughed, cheeks turning red. JJ threw an empty beer can at John B’s head.
“My eyes are still burning,” Pope said, rubbing his eyes dramatically.
“Two hands on the wheel, Pope,” you said, trying to pretend that your face wasn’t on fire with embarrassment.
“Not our fault you guys went out for late night ice cream,” JJ said. “We thought you were asleep.”
“I doubt we would have been able to sleep through-”
“John B, if you say another word, I will castrate you,” you told him with a smile. You didn’t want to think about it. It had been embarrassing enough when they walked in on you and JJ, still deep in a heavy make-out against the wall. It wasn’t really something you wanted to relive every three seconds.
John B cringed and fell silent. Apparently, he didn’t want to be castrated.
“Good choice.”
Picking up the girls, you could tell there was a difference in their attitudes toward each other. Even if they vowed that they still hated each other, you knew that wasn’t the case. You were just glad not to be stuck with the boys anymore.
“Next time you guys get stranded on a boat together, please take me with you,” you whined as they climbed back in the boat.
“Next time, don’t be an accomplice,” Sarah said, raising her eyebrows at you.
“That’s fair.”
“So,” John B said, clapping his hands together. “We need to get supplies. Rope, flashlights, dark clothes, the whole deal. We’re hitting the Craine house once the sun goes down. Yeah?”
There was a series of nods from around the boat as Pope headed back toward shore.
“We’re gonna get that gold,” he said with a large smile. The quiet nodding turned into loud cheers.
Your heart soared with the thought of it. You had your boy sitting beside you, his hand on your thigh and a smile on his lips. And soon, you were going to have your hands on a large pile of gold. Life couldn’t be any better.
***
Adrenaline ran through you as you gasped for breath. A crazy, blind lady shooting at you wasn’t something you were expecting for this night, but here you were, bolting from the Craine house as fast as your legs would take you.
JJ made it to the van first, jumping in the front seat. You were second, sliding into the passenger seat and throwing the sliding door open for the others. They all piled in after each other, except for John B, who had yet to even jump the wall. JJ turned to car over and slowly started to drive off.
You could still hear the old woman shrieking, firing off round after round from her gun.
“Why are we always getting shot at?” Pope yelled.
“Get in, John B!” Kie yelled, hanging out the door and offering him a hand. Sarah and Pope held onto Kie to keep her from falling out. Kie and Pope yelled over each other, Kie at John B and Pope at JJ, until the final member of their part jumped into the van.
Kie slammed the door shut and JJ sped off, pressing his foot harder on the gas. There was a lot more yelling, a few swear words thrown back and forth. You turned back around to look down at John B, who was absolutely covered in mud.
“Dude,” you sighed, holding your nose.
“JJ, drive!” Sarah called.
“Go, man!”
The van lurched forward. John B laughed.
“Are you okay?” JJ asked him. “Are you shot?”
“No.” He shook his head.
“You good?” Pope asked.
“Yeah, yeah.” His voice was shaking from the adrenaline.
“You stink,” you said. John B looked up at you with a smile.
“Thanks, Elm.”
“I think I’d know if I was shot, right?” Kie said, feeling her chest and stomach. Sarah did the same.
“What the hell just happened?” Sarah asked, leaning her head back and closing her eyes.
“All-time Pogue Hall of fame, baby!” JJ hollered, tapping his hands excitedly against the wheel. You grinned, putting a hand on his shoulder.
“That bitch is possessed,” Kie said.
“That bitch can’t aim,” Sarah added with a laugh.
“She’s pretty spry for a dinosaur,” you said, still breathing heavily.
“I’m telling you,” Kie said, swallowing and then shaking her head. “She’s possessed.”
“I don’t get it,” Pope said.”
“She’s blind.”
“Like Master Yoda.”
“Yoda wasn’t blind,” you said.
“Yeah, but he was old and moved super fast.” Pope shook his head. “It makes no sense, scientifically.”
“She does yoga. Pilates, probably.”
You looked down at John B, who held something muddy and disgusting in his hand. Your mouth fell open.
“Oh my god,” JJ said, glancing back.
“You didn’t,” Sarah gasped with a smile.
“What is that?” asked Kie.
“We did it, baby!” John B shouted. That was gold in his hands. Real gold.
“Oh my god,” You laughed, leaning farther out of your chair. “Oh my god!”
A series of screams and shouts for joy filled the van. JJ hooked a hand on your shoulder and shook you back and forth.
“Full Kook!” John B started, pumping a fist up and down in the air. Everyone picked up on the chanting.
The gold was down there. John B had found it. You were going to be rich. You were going to afford that lawyer, get Kid away from your dad. The dream you once had was slowly becoming a reality. You couldn’t stop laughing.
“Full Kook! Full Kook! Full Kook!”
***
The next morning, you sat with Kie and Sarah in the van, reviewing the plan that the boys had come up with. You couldn’t help but laugh at the silly drawing.
“Who drew this?” Sarah asked, a quiet laugh still in her voice.
“Who do you think?” Kie looked over to where Pope and John B were sitting. Pope looked up and grinned. Kie held his gaze for a moment. You glanced over at Sarah and she looked over at you. The two of you let out a little laugh, which turned Kie’s attention back to the plan.
“Kie!” JJ said, walking up to the van. “This better work.”
He dropped the gold into the bottom of the van, crossing his arms.
“We can’t pawn this off if there’s a giant wheat symbol on it,” he continued. With a smile, Kie plucked a blow torch off the ground and held it up.
“It’s gonna work,” she said.
You sat off to the side as Kie blow-torched the gold in a small pot above a flame. JJ and Pope leaned over, watching the gold melt carefully. You chewed on your fingernail, legs shaking up and down.
Not much later, you were all back in the van, shuddering down the road on the way to the pawnshop.
“They might not have the cash for the entire thing,” you said as JJ fiddled with your fingers. “If we break it into pieces and take it to different pawnshops-”
“This will work, Elm,” John B said from the front. You nodded slowly. Overthinking again, you thought to yourself. No need to overthink everything.
When the van slowed to a stop, you felt your stomach flipped. This was the moment of truth. You got this money now, pay off JJ’s restitution, and then go get the rest of the gold. It was all going to work out. You had to believe that.
You hopped out of the van behind JJ as he pulled the gold out of his pocket.
“Hell of a job melting it down, Dr. Frankenstein,” JJ said, turning to look at Kie, who rolled her eyes.
“Like you could have done better.”
“I could have. I took a welding class.”
“You-” She narrowed her eyes at him and tilted her head to the side. “When?”
“Hey.” John B stepped between them. “Shh. Chill out, okay?”
“Easy for you to say,” JJ grumbled. “You’re not the one that has to sell this piece of shit off. How did I get this job anyway?”
“‘Cause you’re the best liar,” Pope said as they started toward the pawnshop. JJ glanced back at you and you shrugged, arms crossed. The Pogues had no reason to doubt you when you lied to them about all the things you lied to them about, so they would have no need to think that you were a pretty good liar. When they gave JJ the job, there was no way you were going to protest.
The six of you filed into the shop, JJ in the front.
“Afternoon, ma’am.”
Everyone spread out rather lamely, standing in front of different objects and pretending to actually care about what they were looking at. If there was anymore sneaking around and lying going on, you were definitely going to have to give them a few pointers as to how to act natural.
JJ spoke to the lady up front, trying his hardest to convince her that the gold was real before she even would talk about price. You tried to cover a laugh as he told a fake story about his mom melting down her earrings.
“Best liar my ass.” You shook your head, turning back to look at a wooden chicken on the wall. The woman at the cash register clearly didn’t believe him. She went to the back to talk to her boss, giving Pope and Kie time to go and talk to JJ. He looked back at you and you gave him a thumbs up, making him smile.
When the woman returned, she slid a piece of paper over to JJ.
“Fifty thousand?” JJ asked. You nearly choked, turning to look at them. JJ tried to negotiate, but the woman had her eyebrows raised. No one was really even trying to pretend that they weren’t paying attention anymore. He and the woman passed quips back and forth until the woman gave one last offer.
“70,” she said. Your heart leaped. “And I won’t ask where you got this.”
You tried to bite back a smile. JJ accepted. But then you hit another snag. The money wasn’t in the shop. She didn’t have the cash in the shop. As soon as she mentioned going to a warehouse, your smile fell. That didn’t sound right. There was something strange going on.
But you were probably overthinking things again. What reason did you have to doubt her? None of your friends did. You tried to shove down your concerns as John B drove to the address that the woman had given to JJ.
“They keep the gold all the way out here?” Pope asked.
“That’s what she said.” JJ laughed. “That’s what she said.”
You smiled, sitting on the floor by his side.
“Stop,” Pope said. Both your and JJ’s smiles dropped. Not the time for jokes, it seemed.
“I’ve never heard of Ressurection Drive,” Sarah said, turning back.
“Cause you’re rich,” JJ said.
“You haven’t heard of it either.”
You sat up straighter and looked out the window. The bad feeling in your stomach was starting to solidify. It was good to hear your friends starting to question this whole thing too. It made you feel a little less crazy.
A police siren startled all of you. Kie and Pope turned around to look at the car. You pushed yourself up, looking out of the back window.
“The cops? Out here?”
“Are you kidding me?” JJ shoved the gold back into his backpack.
“What did we do?” Sarah asked.
“That’s not a police car,” you said as John B pulled over. “No way any cops out here have a car like that.”
“JJ, did you bring the gun?” John B asked.
“No,” JJ zipped up his bag, throwing a blunt inside. “Everyone told me to leave it back at the place.”
“Thank god,” Kie sighed.
“That’s not a cop,” you said, watching the man get out of his car. JJ stood up and shoved the backpack into the hidden compartment beneath his seat. Your heart started to pound at the sight of the man walk toward the van. A black bandana stretched across his face. You shook your head a few times as the others argued about weed and making sure that it was all packed away.
You saw the gun too late. You didn’t have a good view of it until it was shoved through the front window right at John B’s face.
You froze, your entire body going rigid. JJ slowly moved his hand reaching down to grab yours. You didn’t take in a single breath until you felt him squeeze your hand once.
“All y’all’s hands up in the air now!” the man with the mask shouted. You swallowed a lump in your throat and lifted your hands slowly, pulling it from JJ’s grip.
“You, out,” the man said to John B. “Let them out!”
John B slid out of the car slowly, hands still raised in the air. He walked around to the van door and opened it slowly. Sarah walked out first, and then Pope, Kie, you, and JJ last. The man kept shouting, yelling for you to back up.
“We’re broke-” JJ started. The man pointed the gun straight at him.
“Shut the hell up!”
“Alright!” JJ shouted back. “Relax!”
But the more he spoke, the angrier the man got. Pope put his hands on JJ’s shoulders and pulled him backward. You ducked under JJ’s raised hands to stand between him and the man.
“I’ll blow your damn head off!” the man said.
“Okay. Okay, we’re moving,” you said, voice steady.
“Lay down in the ditch!” JJ hesitated, glaring at the man with the gun. “Get on your hands and knees!”
You lowered yourself to your knees, putting your hands behind your head. JJ slowly followed after you.
“It’s okay,” you whispered to him, watching his muscles shake as he resisted the urge to beat the hell out of the man. JJ heaved, his breath ragged and his jaw tight. His eyes flitted back and forth as the man walked back toward the van. You risked moving to place your hand on his arm. “Look at me.”
Slowly, JJ’s eyes moved to meet yours. There was so much anger in him. That anger might just get him killed.
“It’s okay,” you whispered again. “We’re okay.”
He softened slowly before nodding his head once.
“It’s a setup,” Kie whispered.
“The old bat shanked us,” JJ ground out through his teeth. You glanced up at the van, putting your hand back behind your head.
“John B,” you heard Pope whisper. You lifted your head, watching John B sneak off toward the fake cop car. “Don’t be a hero man!”
You put your head back down, keeping your breathing steady. Even when the man emerged from the van and started shouting again, you didn’t look up. Just keep breathing. Just keep breathing.
At the sound of a struggle, you looked up one last time. John B was in the back of the car, trying to take the gun from the man. JJ was on his feet, running toward the car, and you were just behind him.
“I got the gun!” John B called out just as you and JJ neared the car. JJ grabbed hold of the man, spinning him around. He ducked under a punch before hitting the man in the ribcage. The man hit JJ across the cheek, only to be greeted by you with a punch to the face. You hit him again before he shoved you backward. You tripped over your feet, hitting your head against the hard ground. Kie got to him next, giving him a good punch. John B used the gun to knock him off his feet.
“I got the gold!” Pope cried as Sarah slammed the car door into the guy’s head twice.
Your head buzzed with the sting of pain.
“C’mon,” Kie said, grabbing holding of your arm and helping you to your feet. Pope ran around the car and kicked the man in the face, knocking him onto his back. JJ walked over to you, putting a hand on your face and checking your eyes.
“I’m good,” you said. You turned back toward the man on the ground. John B yanked his bandana off of his face. JJ tensed.
“I know this piece of shit,” he growled. “He’s a basehead.”
“Probably knows my brother,” Sarah said with a sigh, running her hands through her hair.
“He sells coke to my dad.” JJ plucked the gun off the ground.
“Listen,” the man groveled, his voice slurred from the blood dripping down his nose. “I couldn’t hurt a single one of y’all-”
He didn’t get to finish his sentence before JJ jabbed the butt of the gun against his nose. Kie and Pope both yelled at him and John B took the gun from his hands, but you wouldn’t have cried if he did it again. The asshole on the ground deserved it.
“Let’s get out of here,” John B said. But JJ wasn’t done yet. He bent down and rummaged through the man’s pockets before pulling out a wallet.
“We got one last stop,” JJ said, shoving John B away from him and storming back to the car. You brought your hand up to your mouth. Beating the guy up was justified, sure, but he was down. No one except him got hurt. Pope had the gun. There was nothing else to be done. But JJ was on a warpath.
Kie looked at you as if you could somehow stop him, but you just shook your head.
“Let’s go see where this son of a bitch lives,” JJ called back.
“I’m gonna remember this!” the man yelled from the ground while you made your way back to the van. “You can’t hide from me! I know exactly who y’all are!”
You jumped into the back of the van, settling yourself into the seat where JJ had been sitting before. Putting your head in your hands, you decided that it was time to go back to listening to your gut. Overthinking or not, there was nothing wrong with playing it safe.
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Humans are Space..... Pets?
I am really sorry guys. This was a new idea and style that turned out to be kind of complicated, so it will be longer than usual. As someone who typically writes novels, this short story stuff is really demanding since it requires you to be entertaining and concise without description which is my favorite. So, Hope you like it.
“Tell us your oddest story, Captain.”
“Weirdest story, huh?” Captain Vir sets his glass down on the bar and tilts his head back thinking as he stares at the ceiling, “Well, you know what, since it’s been declassified, I suppose I can go ahead and tell you.” He picks up his drink again and takes a draw.
“Have you ever heard of Heaven’s Gate Nebula?”…”Of course you have. Well, so it’s this really weird cluster of stars just off Andromeda, not technically part of the galaxy but sort of orbiting it. Now you Know Nebulas are actually star nurseries, so generally stars within nebula tend to be really young….. the problem here is that emissions form Heaven’s Gate indicated 100-200 main sequence stars. I know, not a whole lot for a cluster. The GA had tried to investigate before, but with no real luck, they thought maybe a human crew would have more luck. And as a newly promoted captain with a newly christened ship, I was ready for any job they wanted to throw at me. So, with my new crew, and my new ship, I headed in, this was all before I met Sunny and Krill, and before I lost my eye.”
He finishes the glass and wipes his mouth on his sleeve, “We took it into the dust cloud, and I had to take manual control of the ship. I was nervous, I fly jets, and jets are relatively small, but I had to remember that I was about a thousand feet wider than I am used to. We were navigating mostly by short range radar, so I would only have a few seconds to make it through. Luckily there was no real debris in our way, and when we broke out of the cloud a few hours later, we enter this ….. Open area about solar system wide. Scans showed it had one main sequence star and four planets with a collective 12 moons. There was one planet in the goldilocks zone, so we took her in. I ordered our navigations expert to plot a landing course onto the planet for a shuttle, and then I went down and got together a team of Marines to take our first look. Ok, maybe I was being an idiot, I’m the captain, leading search parties isn’t exactly my job, but I would be damned if I was going to miss exploring an entirely undiscovered planet.”
***
“Alright, Jar Heads, suit up, we’re approaching the LZ.” Behind him the sound of helmets clipping into place over suits was comforting. Captain Vir pulled on his own helmet quickly locking it into pace with one hand as he maneuvered the shuttle towards the planet’s surface. It was green, Like Earth, very green though it wasn’t really due to trees. The ground itself was covered with a very thin layer of moss…. Or so it appeared. The foliage itself was rather sparse, with an odd assortment of trees, and some sort of ferns.
He chose an area next to one of these little clusters, lading their craft with a soft whirr of air. He cut the engines and grabbed his weapon.
The marines were waiting for him ready for exit weapons at the ready, “Alright, Chairfroce, your orders?” The sergeant asked with a good natured nod.
“I defer to you, jarhead. This is simple recon, stay quiet, and keep low. If you see anything, do not engage, we aren’t here to start trouble.” The men nodded, at the front one held up a hand counting down from five before pressing the button to drop the ramp, and in a coordinated unit, the group rushed from the craft and into a wide circle around the ship leaving the copilot to watch over the ship. Captain Vir stopped behind the point man lowering his weapon and checking the readings from his suit. He had been trained to determine the safety of a particular atmosphere. It was a chill 22 degrees F but the oxygen level was 14.8% oxygen content which would equal out to feel like a relatively high altitude. The rest was nitrogen like you would expect on Earth. With one hand, he slapped the point man on the shoulder who, in turn, gave a hand signal to the rest of the group. One of their designated men reached up, and pressed the release sequence on his helmet. It dropped into his hand with a hiss and he took a deep breath. The group watched as he took a few more deep breaths monitoring his blood oxygen content from the monitor on his suit before giving a nod to the captain, who gave another signal. The rest of the group removed their helmets, though a few kept face masks close at hand, not comfortable completely with the low oxygen content. Helmets were strapped to their waists.
Captain Vir ordered them into a loose arrowhead formation at a good 20 feet apart. He fell in at the very far left of the formation towards the thickest area of foliage weapon pressed into his shoulder lowered into a ready position as they began moving slowly through the foliage. He the advanced eye piece over his left eye to keep track of the crew as their red dots moved through the foliage. He couldn’t always see the next man over and up, but he could see the dots.
He was coming up on a very thickly wooded area now, and cut into the trees doing his best to keep up with the marines who moved low and fast through the trees. They were near silent, and he did his best to emulate them as he did so. Yeah, he was trained in combat, but the last war he was in took place strictly on stone, moss and ash, branches hadn’t really been a problem.
He took another step forward into the foliage trying to find a grounded place to put his foot… but then…. There was nothing there. He had one moment of horrible realization before his stomach dropped out from underneath him, and he went plunging downwards.
He hit the rock with a hard crack maybe five feet below, and then bounced over to go tumbling like a pinball down the hill. He might have heard the cry of one of the marines over the com before it was dashed to pieces against a rock. In an attempt to keep his head covered, he turtled into the collar of the space suit, allowing it to take most of the impact as he rolled into another rock and was sent flying down a mossy incline. His weapon was ripped from his hands, and the sling snapped catching him on the cheek as it went.
Now loosed from its grip, his arms flailed and clawed at the ground as he fell. Body crying out in anguish against the pain of his fall. The end of the hill came, and he was pitched over another, small, five foot drop. Landing flat on his back… The pain was incredible, not as bad as losing his leg, but still. He looked down through his bleary vision…. Shit…. His leg, the entire F***ing thing was gone…..
A shadow passed over him from above, and in groggy delirium he looked up squinting against the silhouette, massive, hairy, and reaching out towards him.
He blacked out.
***
He woke up to the chatter of unknown creatures, lying on his back on a bed of soft moss staring up at a leafy ceiling above. Squinting past his own delirium and the bright light in his face he tried to make sense of the scene forcing himself to sit up past the pain in his body and the weight of his suit. The striations in the leafy ceiling resolved themselves as he stared on….. realizing in horror that he was looking at bars. He pushed himself upwards the rest of the way limping/hopping over to the bars where he stopped staring out at the world around him. Stacks and stacks of cages, full of strange alien creatures with fur and feathers, and spines chattering and gambling about their cages hissing and yapping at each other.
He rushed around the cage tugging at the bars, trying to find a locking mechanism, but seeing nothing. He tried to force himself through the bars cursing when his chest was too wide to make it through, even sideways. He tugged even harder and came down hard to the ground without the support of his prosthetic. Missing a leg, there was only so much he could do. The boot of his suit and half of the lower leg had been ripped off leaving him with a useless and dangling bit of fabric. He cursed the stupid thing silently. His REAL leg wouldn’t have just fallen off like that. Sure his remaining leg hurt like a bitch, but at least it was still working.
Piece of garbage.
He glanced around a little more taking a deep breath. First thing was first, he had to find out where he was. He didn’t get much time to figure this out before the air itself was rocked and shattered by an immense vibration. It was a sound like someone had turned the base all the way up on their car speakers. The bars of his cage rattled, his insides rattled, his teeth rattled. Whatever made that sound had to be f***ing massive.
And that’s when the absolutely immense creatures stepped into the room. It was at least 40 feet tall and looked like a cross between Sasquatch, a bear, and King Kong. With a gasp he scrambled back in his cage, as two of the other creatures stepped into the room with it. One of them was about as tall if not taller, and the other was maybe 30 feet tall give or take. As their mouths open, the entire room rumbled with the deep base of their voices. He fell to one knee hands to his chest as if he was trying to hold in his bones.
He couldn’t have known that the creatures were quite sentient naming themselves the Magnites of the Magnapedibus, and they were here for one very specific reason. The taller, and older of the two guests browed their way around the room glancing in cages and speaking to each other in their impossibly deep voices. A couple of times, they opened one of the cages and took out one of the other creatures. Vir watched from the confines of his cell with a sense of growing horror.
This could not be happening, and to make it all worse, his coms were down, and those things were getting closer to him their feet thudding like thunderclaps on the floor below. Quickly, he burrowed himself under a layer of the moss staring out form a minute hole at the scene unfolding before them. He could see that the cages lifted from the top, but there was no way he was going to manage to make it out if that was the case: no way in hell he was going to be able to lift that thing.
The creatures had moved onto the cage right next to his looking over a creature that had some odd recumbence to a giant rat. The smaller creature didn’t seem particularly interested in it. Little did the captain know was that the creature had daned the rat to be not cute enough for its taste. They were arguing among themselves about what the third creature was looking for. What could possibly pique interest when they had gone over the entire place, and yet there was nothing to be seen?
The shop owner gave them one last option, something strange he had picked up out in the woods today, but something he didn’t think was likely to survive. It would require special care, and he had yet to look it over for injury. They moved over to the next cage, just to find nothing visible in site. The larger creature gave a look of confusion to the owner who waved him off. The creature was scared, probably hiding. He threw open the cage lid and reached in prodding around in the moss.
Captain Vir lay as still as he possibly could feeling the ground rumble beneath him eyes closed teeth gritted. And then a massive weight pressed down on his back. Like someone was standing on him, making it hard to breathe. The weight lifted off him and light poured into his little hiding spot. The ground trembled with another mass vibrating noise
Shit! He rolled to the side just as a massive hand came down towards him. He barely escaped crawling up to one knee and scuttling to the side as the hand came after him again. A line of expletives ran through his head as he rolled dodged ad ducked out of the way hindered by his missing leg forced to scramble on three limbs as he tried to get away.
He wasn’t fast enough, the cage wasn’t big enough, and he was caught around the waist by a massive hand. He gasped for air, as the hand grew tight around his middle against his struggling and squirming. He panted pressing his hands against the clenched fist trying to pull himself out, but it was no use.
The massive creatures looked down at him with surprise and confusion. What was this thing? The owner wasn’t totally sure, but he had found it lying injured in the forest. He thought it was supposed to have four limbs, and if that was the case than it was missing one of them. The smaller creature thought that it was horribly sad…. The creature in itself looked terrified squirming and wriggling as it was, and with only one leg it must have been in immense pain. It had very large eyes, a brilliant green color and a small tuft of hair atop its head, kind of adorable, otherwise it was furless…. It must have been very cold. It held out its hands begging to hold the creature, and finally they gave in.
Vir was transferred from one hand to the other, a grip that was lighter this time, the smaller creature. He tried to squirm away again, but then became very aware of the twenty to twenty five foot drop….. he didn’t think he was likely to make that unscathed. Another massive hand was lifted up, and he cringed away as a single huge finger rubbed against the back of his head and down his upper back. Damn, it was like being stroked by a ten pound dumbbell….. it was rubbery and the palm was cracked like the pad of a dog’s foot.
The creature thought it was very cute, whatever it was, and it didn’t seem too dangerous, just an adorable, crippled little creature.
He swore that if they did that again he was going to have to beat someone’s ass, he didn’t care how tall they were…. That was just as soon as he figured out how to get away from this nonsense. That didn’t seem likely to happen as the large creature took him back, and began looking him over pinching his limbs between its massive fingers flipping him into his back like you would to examine a lab rat. He kicked out with his remaining foot as the creature tried to get a good look at his severed leg. He’d be damned if he was going to ACTUALLY get probed by aliens. At least the last ones had asked nicely.
There was more roaring, more rumbling as they tried to figure out what exactly the thing was, despite missing a limb, it didn’t appear to be in pain, but it was a feisty little creature. If they were to sell it, it would need special care, somewhere warm, a special diet, but perhaps it would make a good pet.
***
Vir was about 0% pleased with the outcome of this. His first mission and things had already gone to hell in a handbasket, or in this case what felt like a massive ass paper bag. He had been dumped into one with a handful of the strange moss, and breathing holes poked in the side. Outside he could hear more grumbling and could feel the ground underneath thudding with the footsteps of the giant creatures. He couldn’t stand with only one leg, and lay in the bottom, face pressed against the moss as they moved in short starts and stops. Eventually the rumbling died off a bit, and the movement continued bouncing him up and down inside the bag which swung back and forth.
***
Is this what it was like to be a hamster? Whatever it was like he was done. The creature had barely let him go since it had brought him back to its den. It let him go in its lap, and he’d try to scramble away only to be pulled back. If he was let down on the floor, he would have tried to run, but he was missing something kind of important. There were tons of these things being invited over to hold, pet stoke, and play with him, and he hated every moment of it. He tried to bite at least once, but that turned out to b not worth it at all, the things tasted like ass, and their skin was too thick to bite through. And then it insisted on wrapping him up in randomly soft items like it thought he was cold, like he wasn’t wearing a thermal conserving space suit. This was just a load of bullshit.
Giving some time alone, he was sure he could construct a decent pair of crutches, but that wasn’t going to happen if the creature kept insisting on holding him.
He had one other option…. He could play dead, at this current moment, which seemed to be his best option, so the moment that someone stopped paying attention, he fell limp eyes half closed just willing them to fall for it. When they came back, he watched their shadows moving around, could hear the thrumming and thudding of their voices. They picked him up, and he let his body flop to the side, he did his best to breathe as little as possible, hoping they wouldn’t notice when he did. The roaring grew more urgent, he was moved around constantly laid down prodded, poked, and he refused to move, did his best to keep still as they picked him up. There were many of the creatures there now speaking rapidly, one of them sounded very upset.
He just had to stay still.
And that’s when he heard the roar of the shuttle. The creatures apparently did too, and he watched as the ship roared in through an opening over the heads of the creatures before circling down. The creatures made some more roaring sounds. He could hear voices as the carrier landed. Wind whipped at his clothes, there was more roaring.
“CAPTAIN!”
He opened his eyes just in time, as one of the marines grabbed him by the arm and hoisted him over his shoulders racing back towards the carrier as the others covered him from behind. He was thrown to the deck inside the carrier as the ship lurched form the ground and roared forward.
The roaring grew louder, the ship tilted and swung. The marines held on for dear life as one had him pinned to the ground keeping him still as the ship rocked and rolled.
And then they shot forward and the roaring died away. Captain Vir let his head rest back on the floor breathing heavily.
“Are you alright, Captain?” The marine asked looking him over for injuries.
“Relieved to see you Marine….. relieved to see you.”
#humans are space orcs#humans are weird#humans are space oddities#humans are space australians#earth is space australia
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A Sucker for a Good Romance
I accept full blame for the following shenanigans. Though it was prompted by @swtor-prompts challenge for today and a robust discussion in Discord.
And they knew then that their love would last, until the stars fell from the skies.
Jonas Balkar grinned smugly as he finished typing the last line, particularly pleased with his most recent writing. The Padawan & The Spy was a good holoserial on its own, but it was fun to explore the characters and their motivations off-screen – there was really only so much a serial could cover on air. He'd fallen into fanfiction after a season and was hooked.
Ah, this chapter was a thing of beauty. It had behaved so nicely, flowing from his fingers like the Force to a Jedi, and it struck just the right balance between saccharine-sweet and spicy hot. Giving the story a quick once-over for typos, he clicked “Post Now” and stood to refill his caf.
A ding from across the safehouse drew his attention. The grumpiest of spies and slicers, one Theron Shan, glanced from his lunch to his datapad and gave what could only be described as an actual, honest-to-goodness smile. Jonas watched in amazement as Shan abandoned his sandwich and picked up the datapad, his eyes glued to the screen.
What in the galaxy could make him drop the Cantankerous Rex facade? Jonas pondered the options as he hovered near the caf station, mug in hand, stealthily observing his friend.
Now, part of what made Jonas such a good spy – if he did say so himself – were his instincts. The timing of when he'd posted his fic could have coincided with Theron receiving a message from a good friend... but, being honest, Shan didn’t really have what one would call “friends.” At least, not ones whose messages would make him grin like that. Also, he was still reading, completely engrossed. A message wouldn’t likely be that long.
Scanning the room, Jonas grabbed a napkin and crumpled it up. He crossed to the trash can near the dining table and surreptitiously glanced over his colleague's shoulder. Stars only knew how, but he managed to contain his crow of triumph upon recognizing the holo-site’s familiar red and white color scheme.
“Hey, Shan,” Jonas said smoothly as he sat in the chair opposite Theron, ignoring the scowl cast in his direction. “How’s the newest fic update?” he asked innocently, smothering a smirk. “That ‘better_under_cover’ is a great writer, huh?”
“What? No,” Theron said, a little too quickly. “I mean... I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Jonas might have actually believed him if not for the blush creeping up his neck and into his ears.
“You’ve gotta admit: it’s a great chapter,” he bragged, leaning back in the chair and gesturing in faux-humility. “Little bit of smut, little bit of fluff... It's like Goldilocks and the Three Nexus: just right!”
“How do you even know that? It was literally just updat–” Theron froze, shock and horror crossing his features. “Shit.”
“Ha – I knew it!” Jonas gloated as the flush crept into Theron’s cheeks. “All right, what’s your username? I wanna see what–”
“I will end you if you try,” Theron snarled, clutching the datapad to his chest. “And I’ll blame it on the Cartel if Trant wonders what happened to one of his Nar Shaddaa agents.”
“You mean ‘his best Nar Shaddaa agent.’” Jonas’s seemingly innocent comment earned him a glare that, if looks could kill, would have incinerated him. “Ah, Shan,” he continued smoothly, “I had no idea you were such a sucker for a good romance. If I’d known before, I’d have–”
“Shut it, Balkar,” Theron interrupted.
He knew when it was time to make a tactical retreat, and stood, arms raised innocuously, though his mind raced with new ideas. Jonas grabbed his datapad and bag, then prepped to head out to the Slippery Slopes Cantina: he was supposed to check-in with a certain lovely Mirialan trooper in about an hour and would hate to be late. As he walked out the door, Jonas decided to briefly court death.
“Just an FYI: the best part’s about two-thirds of the way through,” he said with a jaunty wave and a smirk, ignoring the growled string of curses behind him.
Hmm. Maybe he’d have to add a guest appearance by a goat in the next chapter.
For no particular reason.
#swtor#swtor fanfiction#swtor-prompts#Theron Shan#Jonas Balkar#BroTP: Spy Boys#and okay#I had to include Bryoni for Jonas#I couldn't help it!#Clan Piranha#is full of enablers too#they're the best kind of trouble#brb dying of laughter#i was legit cackling as I wrote this#knitter writes#crack fic
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