Daily Lit Recognition for October 9th, 2014

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Daily Lit Recognition for October 9th, 2014

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Poetry

Featured by: chromeantennae 
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too late by half-pixieman

This haiku is striking. The imagery is gorgeous and as a reader, I believe most will love the honesty of this piece. It's fantastic.

Suggested by: OfOneSoul
Featured by: betwixtthepages
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From the suggester: An emotional roller coaster full of description and beautiful honesty.


Prose

Featured by: OfOneSoul 

Despite the shortness of the piece, Just-A-Dabbler manages to draw us in and let us loose with a satisfying but shocking ending.

Featured by: Rose-Em
Suggested by: chasingcloudbursts
A foolish way to die trying.No one saw me come in, no one will see me leave. The air is cold and thin as I quietly close the door behind me, leaving his house to sleep in silence. In the morning, I will be the hazy memory of dreams, gossamer tangled on his eyelashes as if I may never have been there at all. The night is clear and bright and so devastatingly perfect I want to cry, I want to run, I want to be anywhere but here, standing in his driveway while the moon scrutinizes my bare skin, my flushed cheeks.
Falling into my car, it is a glacier, an ice floe and I am a woman out to sea. Something hopes my car won’t start, that I’ll have to go back inside, crawl back into his bed, let his warmth envelop me. But the engine turns over and I’m already gone. There’s never been anything there to stop me when I needed it most.
The roads home are dark and icy but I drive on automatic, slowly rewinding the night, erasing the tapes. The closer you get, the less you see, and he’s blinding me, f

This piece shows so much emotion in the span of a few paragraphs and the reader is left with an intangible sensation of sorrow and loss.

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