This is just a hobby.
I’m sitting in a hairdresser’s chair, my arms poking out of the plastic sheath I’ve been given as protection from the bleach that coats my soon to be not-brown locks. My scalp is tingling and my nose is filled with the sour, astringent scent of chemicals. I have three choices of what to do while I wait:
By Rose3 months ago in Writers
Confession — I’ve been putting off writing this life update forever, mostly because I want to write it well. The more time passes, the more I have to say, and the harder it gets to weave everything into a cohesive narrative. I think the only way I’m going to get any words onto this page is to give up on the idea of making this piece excellent, and concentrate on making it just exist.
By Rose4 months ago in Wander
How much does air cost? A lot, if you’re asthmatic, paying for each breath.
By Roseabout a year ago in Poets
Long ago, there was a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was a very rich man, but he wasn’t a very good man. He loved money, but he hated everything else. He hated love. He hated happiness. He hated laughing. He hated dancing. He hated dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, pandas, and children.
By Roseabout a year ago in Education
Recall your high school PE class. Does it bring up thoughts of hefting your body up onto high bleachers? Do you imagine a scuffed up wooden floor shimmering dustily beneath fluorescent lights? Do you recoil at the memory of the dull thud of a red inflatable danger-sphere coming into contact with your shoulder during dodgeball? Are your olfactory senses flooded with the odor of greasy, fumbling, over-ripe adolescence?
By Rose2 years ago in Longevity
The videos made for children on YouTube are notoriously weird. Over the years, most genuinely disturbing content has been removed, but that has not necessarily resulted in a decrease in overall oddness. Preschoolers are not the most discerning viewers, and it’s easy for content creators to quickly churn out literally whatever and rake in the views.
By Rose2 years ago in Education
Who can forget the month of December, 2019. It might’ve been cold, depending on where you lived. Snowy, or whatever. You might have been preparing to celebrate your holiday of choice, or else winding down in the wake of that holiday. The nightly news shows were filled with the first whispers of the oncoming covid-19 pandemic, but the cinemas were filled with magic! Finally, after many decades of success on the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most glorious musical had arrived to bless the big screen!
By Rose2 years ago in Geeks
Good Morning, toot toot! I am a train. Toot toot! You are my passenger. I don’t think we’ve spoken before. Hi! How are you? Nice bed head, by the way. Did you have a good sleep?
By Rose2 years ago in Fiction
It’s 4:30 AM on the last school day before the commencement of summer vacation. The street across from the Wuhan shipyard fills with old ladies pushing breakfast carts. A bowl of hot dry noodles costs three yuan. Other sellers offer up meat stuffed buns, duo pi, fried gluten dipped in honey, boiled tea eggs, sugared ears of corn, and roasted sweet potatoes.
By Rose2 years ago in Wander
It’s no secret that I’m a musical theatre fanatic. As a teenager, my dream was to be a theatre critic. This was thwarted by my terrible taste (notorious flops about vampires are, to excuse the pun, my life blood). Nonetheless, I have many opinions! You’ll find below some brief thoughts on every major theatre production I’ve been lucky enough to see live.
On December 8th, 2020, I signed on to my first class with Gotham Writers Workshop. Fiction Writing I, taught by Benjamin Obler, met over Zoom for three hours every Monday night. As the ten week course progressed, I learned new ways to hone my description, dialogue, and plotting abilities. I also received feedback from the instructor and the other ten students in my class.
Opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, color, origin, material, type, purpose. I sit in a stuffy, small, dark, rectangular, new, white, British, wooden, bed, sleeping room.
By Rose2 years ago in Families