Beatrice Stitch Character Sheer by Shuffles101, literature
Literature
Beatrice Stitch Character Sheer
Name: Beatrice Lillian Stitch, will often go by Bea
Gender: Cisgender woman
Physical Description:
Beatrice is a small woman. Some may even go so far as to describe her as appearing frail. Standing at her full height, she reaches about five foot, four inches. She keeps her hair cut short in a modest pixie cut and, since the accident, dyes it lavender in an attempt to maintain some control over her appearance. However, if she’s busy and forgets to touch it up, her mousy brown roots will begin to show.
Bea’s most noticeable trait is presence of her wheel chair or forearm crutches. Which she chooses depends on how her legs feel that
I was birthed by a 17 year old spring with no health insurance.
A nurse delivered me into a hospital bed while she stared at the door and wondered what shape he might have taken if he were to fill it.
I was premature.
The doctors had faith I would make it,
But her teenage womb grew flowers,
Not fruit.
I was in the grocery store today,
And for the fourth time this month,
I was stopped and offered the most sincere condolences for the loss of my brother.
My brother's not dead.
He doesn't know why this is happening,
And he wishes I would stop calling him about it.
Not my fault he died without telling anyone.
I wonder if our mother knows.
The boy in blue sits on the fading red porch
While his mother makes dinner inside.
It was not a good day at school today,
But he tried.
That's what he told his mother,
He tried,
And she believes him,
But she still called Aunt Beth once they got home,
And she still cried.
The boy in blue extends his hand and lifts one finger towards a firefly.
Behind him, the front door opens.
His mother takes a half step out.
"Dinner's ready, pumpkin," she says,
And the boy in blue leaves the fading red porch
To eat his dinner inside.
Every year, we lose our wives to the well.
As they dip their buckets into the whispering darkness,
The darkness dips back,
And all that remains are their hair ribbons
Left behind in the weeping grass.
We beg them to stay away from that wretched portal,
To allow someone else to fetch the water,
But with lowered eyes and feminine meekness,
They insist that it is their duty and that they must go.
Just last spring,
I saw the baker's wife and the blacksmith's betrothed walking towards the well,
Hand in hand and giddy with fear.
They were never seen again.
Some years ago, we sent a boy own the rope to retrieve our brides,
But the shadows of t
The Cruelty of Children by Shuffles101, literature
Literature
The Cruelty of Children
When I was in first grade,
There was a boy that grew dandelions behind his eyes.
At recess, we'd gather around and tease him about it,
And when he'd cry,
The little white gowns of a girl's first communion
Would gather on his apple cheeks until a stiff breeze carried them away,
To sidewalks,
And soccer fields,
And wherever little yellow flowers were needed at the time.
We called him Weed.
He eventually switched schools.
I'm Coping, and Everything Will Be Okay. by Shuffles101, literature
Literature
I'm Coping, and Everything Will Be Okay.
"You can't fix all of your problems with noodles,"
The universe told me as we sat on a lunch date that I had not asked for,
But she was wrong,
And I could,
So I did.