Krystyn Wells

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

handed down or made by hand : to tuck into the warm blanket of routine, when the darkest nights of the year are sub-zero cold and glittering with stars, and attempt to remember what it was like when this sort of thing was food to sustain me (posted Jan 6, 8:57pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

more and more i'm secretly just me : Best of Holidailies And you know what makes conversation easy? When you can have short silences, pauses where you don’t have to speak, you don’t have to be witty. (posted Jan 3, 9:23pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

try whistling this : The secret agent smiled wickedly, using her cigarette holder to gesture at me, then at the world, so Bacall: "You see this? The world? I have information that will change everything. None of this will ever be the same." I rolled my eyes and stole a french fry off her plate. "Trust me," I said, "No one will care." (posted Dec 21, 11:41pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

cold station all of my life, forever i fear : "The ninjas have had the last laugh," I muttered darkly, as I cleared away the broken glass, the dead mimes, and one very pissed off pengiun. (posted Dec 20, 9:20pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

there's nobody on this flat earth would ever want to win it : The question knocks around my head like plastic blocks tumbling in a clothes dryer, ugly and meaningless when spoken: why should this come now, when it’s so, so late? Why would it take this for him to see that I have worth? (posted Dec 17, 9:20pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

with half-closed eyes, things looked even better : Bay rum soap, pine trees, detergent, tea, allspice, rain-soaked soil. (posted Dec 15, 10:52pm)

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i love your slinky spoilers, they really speak to me : I still play that little game, though, of finding small, normally inconsequential things, and holding them to the light. (posted Dec 14, 8:11pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

a cheap renoir, a fake van gogh, a pop monet, a blue degas : I’m in no hurry. (posted Dec 13, 8:25pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

the shameful lowlands of the way i'm drifting : ... cars just outside the shot emitting those huge poofy white clouds of exhaust that are common in sub-zero temps. (posted Dec 12, 5:35pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

only a steel man came to recover : For the first time in months, I felt today like I was able to reach back to Diversey Avenue, to the Ukrainian Village, to the way an entire city could be hushed and humbled by its first snowfall. (posted Dec 11, 8:47pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

suki plays with leo, sacha plays with britt : You know how when architects or theatrical scene designers make their models, they put a little tiny stand-up silhouette of a human next to it, to provide scale? (posted Dec 10, 10:01pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

and all we ever were - just zeros and ones : Best of Holidailies It was as though I landed in Los Angeles in late 2007, and they jammed a tin tiara on my head, cheap and bent and poking into my scalp, and they said, “Be the princess, second in command ... (posted Dec 9, 10:19pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

the velocity of time turns her voice into sugar water : Harmony through distillation of the mystery. Tiny mushroom caps and the red swirl of chili. (posted Dec 8, 9:56pm)

Glitter by Krystyn Wells (14)

we all must learn from small misfortune : I have been a zombie, trudging my way through the days and months, mechanically lurching along, marking the passage of time, but never taking time to reflect. (posted Dec 7, 7:05pm)