Bride of Sound

Joined January 2021

39 stories

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I explore themes of altered perception, distortion of the body, and dysfunctional romance. Sometimes chaotic, always controlled.

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Winter’s Thaw
pickled berry toes sting when the water dresses thaw before unfurl
By Bride of Sound2 months ago in Poets
Pill Winter
pill winter- fires burning holes in my pocket fuel the labyrinth
By Bride of Sound2 months ago in Poets
Instructions on How to-. Content Warning.
You coveted me for months— an eternity in tides, extracting each grain of sand from under my fingernails. Enamored by my skin—
By Bride of Sound7 months ago in Poets
I Never Told You
I’ve felt a pattern in my life, I forget and I’m reminded Someone else’s first, sooner I liked you even more, You changed from something I want, to a need, to a chore
By Bride of Sound8 months ago in Poets
Checking In. Honorable Mention in Things You Can’t Say Out Loud Challenge. Content Warning.
When I call to check in after days of avoiding— your silence, frustration, the cathedral of agony— you might answer: I’m hanging in there,
By Bride of Sound8 months ago in Poets
Swallowing Gods
Paralyzed by my shadow’s overbite, I claw open your swollen mud cocoon. Enshrined, spared from rot’s bloom. Sun-flayed shrivel. Maggot breath.
By Bride of Sound8 months ago in Poets
Syrenka
Come to me underwater. In liquid light, I shine like a princess and grant promises with great bounty. ~ Follow my trail of lip-pressed bubbles
By Bride of Sound8 months ago in Poets
The Night Cap. Honorable Mention in Light Breaks Water Challenge.
Sunlight meanders in and floods the linen tablecloth in bars. “Belonged to Grandmother,” you say, “and will be yours, some fateful day.”
By Bride of Sound8 months ago in Poets
An Unapologetic Letter From the Demon
I want you to know I stole your man. and I didn’t do it out of some quest for the truth or because I’m a good person who saw that he was tormented
By Bride of Sound9 months ago in Poets
Rabbit Ears. Content Warning.
Early in the morning I awoke first to choke on morning light, then sickness in my loathsome sight my mind spins backwards like a clock
By Bride of Sound9 months ago in Poets
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You pathetic fuck Dumb luck Got you dumb struck Wandering the forest Evergreen I picture you licking water Out a mountain stream
By Bride of Sound10 months ago in Poets
Memory Bound. Content Warning.
memory bound the sound of sickness losing my cold ground to dirty imperfection and I’d like to taste it so I knew it was poison
By Bride of Sound11 months ago in Beat