Cailean
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What can I say? I live, I look, I listen, I write. And from that writing, I live again. It’s a cycle – I write for myself, but I appreciate when other people “walk in my skin” for a few moments and although note the differences, delight in the similarities.
I’m contactable via cailean.darkwater@gmail.com and feel free to poke me for other contact details if you want. I love to talk about writing and philosophy in general, human nature, politics, religion, all the subjects you’re NOT meant to mention in polite society, as it were. Curious always to receive feedback – it doesn’t have to be a ringing declaration of “awesomeness” as it were.
Journal Entries
Love & Hate
Posted about 1 month ago, 16 comments so far.
Noodles for One
Posted 3 months ago.
Dead Man's Jacket
Posted 5 months ago, 13 comments so far.
Writings
Shaped
Eyes sprouted on the uneven surface of the Shaper to look at Shamu, forcing the overwhelmed Worker to start visibly.
The Messenger
Croaks through lacerated throat and mangled lips, a single word: “Malachi.” Its eyes slowly close, peace suffuses its woeful features, lapsing into silent tranquility.
Knife's Edge
Locked in deadly embrace – the gang border dispute or turf war – the only music was the frenzied beating of one’s heart, reminding you, beat by beat, that for this moment you still e…
The Pilgrim
Alas! The fates did not smile on this forsaken supplicant! With a righteous roar he didst release the holy fury upon me.
Wanderer
I don’t know how long we stood there, just watching, feeling, breathing in the new air, as if the world was just made, and that we were the only two people on the Earth.
Illegal Alien
Both turned around on cue, expecting to see the typical scientist stereotype in white lab clothes, they were more than surprised to see the several grim figures garbed totally in black …




