Silver Serpent Books

Joined May 2021

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Bio

Writer. Interested in all the rocks people have forgotten to turn over. There are whole worlds under there, you know. Dark ones too, even better.

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Runner-Up in Under Purple Clouds Challenge

Stories (149/0)

Schrödinger's cat
I am Schrödinger's cat. Dead and alive inside a burning box. Dreaming and not dreaming in the shadow, in the light. Breathing smoke and not breathing at all.
By Silver Serpent Booksabout 18 hours ago in Poets
Mile Markers
I fell in love with you between the mile markers. Hope and dreams blared on the radio, Air filled my tires, And the lovely sound of my car galloping across the highway
By Silver Serpent Books4 days ago in Poets
Top Story - April 2024
Round UpTop Story - April 2024
Sometimes I wonder what evidence it will take. Sometimes, between dodging rounds of flying bullets, Or fleeing the toxic spew of chemicals, or even crawling
By Silver Serpent Books12 days ago in Poets
Slipping Shadows
Shit. Shit. When did I lose the taste of you? When did you shift out of the familiar And into the territory of rare delicacy?
By Silver Serpent Books17 days ago in Poets
Breath
I am stuck in the swirling spot below my navel, Stuck in the canyon between inhale and exhale Where movement lingers, thinks, and freezes.
By Silver Serpent Books18 days ago in Poets
Grey
I rotted something in my brain When I first tasted dopamine on my tongue. I rotted the stoic parts of my blood, Tore down the strong stone walls of my resolve
By Silver Serpent Books24 days ago in Poets
Serendipitous Encounter
Every heart stutters and every footstep falls silent in Concern for the blackening sky, the shadowed ground, the bright sun
By Silver Serpent Books25 days ago in Poets
Jungle Decay
The dream of the jungle swallows me. It carves cruel, curling calligraphy into my bones Until the density of me Decreases into nothing more than dust in the blood.
By Silver Serpent Books26 days ago in Poets
Milk & Honey
Metal scraped against metal And this low I could feel the radiating heat of the stove Against my fever-chilled face, Smell the denim of my father's jeans
By Silver Serpent Booksabout a month ago in Poets
Cigarettes and Placeholder Dreams
Eighteen and hungry, The cigarette hanging between bloody fingers doing nothing To suppress the gnawing hunger clawing a hole in my stomach.
By Silver Serpent Booksabout a month ago in Poets
Top Story - March 2024
The AlgorithmTop Story - March 2024
My heart...it shatters. I can hear the algorithm in her words, The delicate pattern of prepositions, time And the most subtle of rhymes
By Silver Serpent Booksabout a month ago in Poets
Momentum
It has been a long time, my friend. Seasons have worn away The carefully grown enthusiasm Of my youth. The optimism I meticulously pruned
By Silver Serpent Booksabout a month ago in Poets

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Stories (149/0)

Schrödinger's cat

Mile Markers

Round UpTop Story - April 2024

Slipping Shadows

Breath

Grey

Serendipitous Encounter

Jungle Decay

Milk & Honey

Cigarettes and Placeholder Dreams

The AlgorithmTop Story - March 2024

Momentum

Achievements (1)