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* The Core Cast “Me” — The Center / The Reason Everything Exists Description “Me” isn’t just another part. He cannot be lost at any cost—losing him destroys the others. He is: * the most intuitive * the most emotionally complete * the one who doesn’t need to define himself to be real
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Full Chapter List (Not Final Ordered Structure) Front Matter 1. Before We Begin 2. Prologue Core Narrative — Formation → Environment → Fracture 3. Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly 4. When Silence Means Everything 5. Something to Hold 6. The Price of Friday 7. Untouched 8. Cold Steel: Peppermint Click
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Full Chapter List (Not Final Ordered Structure) Front Matter 1. Before We Begin 2. Prologue Core Narrative — Formation → Environment → Fracture 3. Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly 4. When Silence Means Everything 5. Something to Hold 6. The Price of Friday 7. Untouched 8. Cold Steel: Peppermint Click
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INTRODUCTION Intro all in0:00/80.8947291× Everyone needs someone, for something, sometimes, but it doesn't have to be a specific someone all the time. The thing I believe in most? Love. We all have different needs. We are different people with different skills—and different weaknesses. I
Before the Black Dress, After the Blue Butterfly
My family started dying. As people tend to do. Most of us try to procrastinate about it. We stall. We pretend it isn’t happening. Others—the real ones, I thought then—do something about it. If there was a way to stop it, that had to be it. In
Good Boy ... Spoken Monologue Preview An audio excerpt from Phrase
Good boy0:00/226.2237081× "You don't need me, you're strong enough on your own. You're a bad ass" "I don't feel like it, thank you ..." I stop It's cold Like a shattered crystal stem wine
When silence means everything
When silencemeans everythng part 10:00/394.3181861× I didn't know where to go, ever ... Mostly I just sort of walked around singing, chewing gum. I like love songs most, I like to focus on the voices. I like to sing with them. They are nice to me,
Something to Hold
The cop didn't question my medicine, so that was good—odd, I thought… but good. Also, he really didn't hassle me all that much, which was unusual. Typically, I am a little more tame when it comes to encounters with the police than my friends, but
The Price of Friday
He steps off me and sinks into the bed. I glance over to look him in the eyes. “Let him up.” He smiles wide—teeth bare, dimples—cute in a way. The men release their grasp, as they stand simultaneously, though over me still. I tik and tilt my head.
Untouched
Limping down the steps backwards I close the door as we leave. The girl has already found her way to the yard. I'm a little slower than her. For some reason I don't feel well, but it's not my leg. I know what adrenaline
Cold Steel: Peppermint Click
Breathe inward muscles tense legs spread shoulder width apart it hurts to move even slowly though, that’s the point I’ve gone too far I can't stop now but I can focus Breathe Tai Chi has taught me a lot. You’re supposed to do it relaxed.
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Dogs of Old
My knowledge of anything is useless when I forget everything It was how he died it was how they died it was how we died in the woods in the field in a building alone but no one forgot not even the new dogs that weren't there when
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Surgery (Unfinished Intentional Placeholder)
Friday's Favor (Placeholder unfinished)
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Rain of Daggers
It's like editing a book, maybe? An extra pause here, a slight change in tone not portrayed on the page correctly ? The downfall happens in the same manner, small, insignificant, unknowingly, though, still ... That's not way to stop it, that can't be it... In
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The Fall (Part 1)
From what i can understand from what i can tell who I am and i can see there might be an I, a we, a me ... those are pretty distinctly but sometimes there's an us and the us is a problem It tends to coerce me into trusting
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Beds of Stone
You tell me everything, and I listen. Anything you want to tell me I want to know. I don't always understand it, but we can talk about anything. "Click" Except us. We are taboo. I just wish I understood. What makes me so worse? You compare
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Shade of the Tree
Everybody has hobbies. Everybody has interests. Everybody has opinions. Everybody has dreams... Unless you don’t. Then they’re beat out of you. My dream as a kid? Normal. That’s it. Simple, right? Though — how many of us actually are normal? I don’t think I’ve ever met
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Luck
I felt more like myself today, not a lot, but just a little. work is over but it's cold, no vehicle to drive me, so in the snow I walk I see the line but not a painted one, it's jagged, not as straight as I&
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15: Just Next to You
Sometimes I'll play the lottery, a little more literally than I'd like we don't like the word literally, I just need things to be clear. you're already doing what you're doing, but things don't always make sense, I&
The Book of Tragedies
You're my friend ... I remember you. our best friend ... we can trust you ... right ? "I actually like it here, a lot ... too much, probably ... i never really want to leave I just have to ... I don't ... belong here" I just want to ... this place
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Don't let it get to you
I'm exhausted Everything is all I can think about, I can't stop now, I've gone too far. As the days pass we get closer walking standing leaning gazing laughing loving it's torture I'm exhausted "click" but I love
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The I, The We, The Us — and Me
— from Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3 Friar Laurence’s cell * Romeo. There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, And world's exile is death: then banished, Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,