TheArtistLounge Artistic Journey #16

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LITERATURE
 
ReflectionsHow much does a work
      reflect its creator?
Even when the ideas
  are nothing but fiction
    from the characters
     as they carry out their lives
    to the fantastical settings
     where each story takes place
   can we glimpse fragments
    of the mind
     behind these imaginings?
I like to think
    we can gain some insight
  into the identity
     of any writer
 or at least what is (and was)
      important to them
        in this way
  ...like footprints left behind
       on a sandy beach
         except in textual form
Creativity is such
     a personalized process
   so perhaps our writings
    are akin to children
     sent forth into the world
      who show traces
    carapacethe future is written on the corpse of the past
and these hands we call blades
cannot be sharpened too fast Video GamesVideo Games
Max and Nikki were sitting together in their college dorm room, playing a new video game called Monster Slayer. They had just finished their midterm exams, and they were dead set on not studying at all for the rest of the week to make up for the time they spent studying for their midterms the past couple of weeks.
"Dammit Nikki! You're cheating!" Max exclaimed, as he continued to viciously mash the buttons on his controller.
"Max, being better than you at video games is not cheating, it just means that you suck," Nikki countered playfully, giving Max another kiss on the lips before she killed all the monsters that Max was attempting to kill.
"It is cheating when every time I'm close to catching up with you, you give me a kiss on the lips and make me lose my focus," Max countered, pausing the game so that he could continue to talk without losing any more of a lead than he already had.
"Not my fault my amazing kisses leave you in a lovestuck trance, honey," Nikki count<da:thumb id="820673745"/>

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