• twistedtaste (61)in #pain • 4 years ago

  Two faces of the same coin ~

  Remember the time you touched the hot iron? Did you touch it again? Or did you learn to stay away from it? When a bad situation arrives in life it always hurts. Some things…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #free • 4 years ago

  The lump in my throat ~

  I can feel it. It is always there. I swallow and I gulp. It still stays. It doesn't budge. I can't breathe anymore. So constricting. It is a constant reminder that I am…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #mylife • 4 years ago

  The girl with the arm cast ~

  My tibia was shattered. Doesn't sound like a problem. I could walk with crutches. But my arm was sprained too. So crutches wasn't an option. I can still smell the plaster. The…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #mylife • 4 years ago

  The girl in the well ~

  One of my fondest memories from our drives to the farm house were the pitstops. We would often stop at gas stations. Back then they weren't as hygienic as today. But I…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #journal • 4 years ago

  The girl by the well ~

  Once every year we drove all the way to our farm house. It wasn't as much a farm house as it was a forced family event venue. We would all gather our things and muster up the…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #storytime • 4 years ago

  The creases of my palm speak to me of a shaken fate ~

  I went to a palm reading at Autumn Fest. Here's is what I thought of it. Destiny has always bothered me. I believed we weren't bound to any certainty. IF we were, life wouldn't…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #fiction • 4 years ago

  The southern wind blew my scarf away ~

  The clicking of the bulb grew numb. The clanking of cranks turned into music. Every now and then a whiff of repulsive disinfectant swept by as the barman wiped the table. The…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #masochism • 4 years ago

  I'masochism ~

  There are a lot of theories. An evidence-based explanation as to why so many people who live regular lives (on the surface) delve into a taboo practice is yet to appear. It does…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #taboo • 4 years ago

  Why masochism?

  It is an uncomfortable conversation to have. Often undermined by the trivial yet solidified feelings of taboo towards it. At the first glance of a closed mind I go back to paying…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #spiritual • 4 years ago

  What it takes to conquer pain ~

  We often run from it. Try and create paths to avoid it. However, it stays. It finds its way back to us. Pain is not something to snatch out and throw away. It must be a part of…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #mythoughts • 4 years ago

  Oh, what a life would it be ~

  I am lost in thought, guided by faint hope, kept on track by reality, and powered by desire. What I need the most is what I do not want. A conundrum you have faced just as much…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #life • 4 years ago

  I'd like to be put in a pod ~

  I attended a funeral this morning. Open casket. Not a Christian funeral service but an atheist one. There were many familiar faces. Its the beauty of having a small and tight…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #pain • 4 years ago

  My tastes won't be pacified ~

  My buffet is lined with suffering, my banquet born from distress, my diet demands pain. If we are all unique then I am unique in the way that I have a gluttony for pain. I am not…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #pain • 5 years ago

  Al that lays beyond the pale ~

  I do not love pain. I love the feeling. It is the most real emotion one can feel. It is the sensation that differentiates a dream from reality, it is what doctors look for to…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #peptalk • 5 years ago

  The unturned tarot card ~

  I push myself through every single day my chanting the same mantra I have been for many years now. I keep telling myself that if it doesn't end happily, it isn't the end at all.…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #imperfections • 5 years ago

  "All of me" as a person ~

  Very contradicting, is it not? The thought of perfect imperfections. How could two completely opposite things that strictly contradict each other be peas of the same pod…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #blue • 5 years ago

  Paint me blue at an orange morning ~

  Do you know what happens after an appendectomy? I was told it would take 1-3 weeks to recover and get back to work. I got lucky! If it were to be an open appendectomy and not a…

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• twistedtaste (61)in #masochist • 5 years ago

  Gladioli and lilies for my cradle ~

  People think of me as an agamic masochist. Hellbent over alluring agonizing and excruciating pain towards myself. It is as if I find myself in it. As if it completes me. Makes…

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