

Grown ups "What do you want to be when you grow up?"Grown ups by ~akai-hanabi
"What do you mean?" I laughed. "I'm already grown up."
She turned over onto her side to face me, all false seriousness. "You're a student at university, you don't have a job and you still live with your parents."
"Alright, so I'm not a grown up." I not-so-surreptitiously reached over to tickle her nose with a long stem of grass I'd pulled idly from the ground for this very situation.
"No! Stop!" She squirmed, quivering with mirth. I was relentless. "Really, stop it!" She poked me in the stomach.
"What are we doing on the grass anyway?"
"Cloud watching."
"There are too many clouds to watch. The


MT What I can remember about my first girlfriend was that she was a vapid sort of girl; sweet and cheerful, but not entirely intelligent. Still, she still managed to do well overall in school and she had a moderately sized group of friends.MT by ~akai-hanabi
"Some day, when I get married I will have three children. The first will be a boy."
"Hmm, really?" I wasn't quite listening while I traced my finger along the bare skin of her collarbone.
"I wonder what I'll name him."
I hushed any further rambling with another kiss.
She usually came over to my house when she was free from her extra-curricular activities. I lived with a benevolent uncle and my older sist


proofread this draft we'll proofread this draft togetherproofread this draft by ~cursive-starlight
with the handbook torn open
our folders are leaking
hints of punctuation
with the handbook torn open
you will hardly even notice when
hints of punctuation
bite at your tongue
you will hardly even notice that
the comma splices are only trying to
bite at your tongue
while the fragments distract you
the comma splices are only trying to
tear us apart
while the fragments distract you
my rhyme scheme marches on
tear us apart
with your stupid punctuations
my rhyme scheme marches on
and tramples your form
with your stupid punctuations
those tense shifts will mean nothing
and trample your form