Hope. (976 hits)
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Submitted by Fey (View user info) at 2007-07-25 17:57:37 EDT
The girl, we'll call her Sofia, is on this day waiting patiently at the pedestrian crossing. She has pushed the button, changing the rhythm of its beeps from the blip - blip - blip of standby to the blipblipblip of activated. Sofia pays attention to the man in the light, she lets him decide when it is time for her to walk.
It is a warm day, this day on which the girl Sofia waits patiently. The sun caresses the back of her neck and heats the back of her black singlet, bouncing lingeringly off her tan shoulders. In the distance the shimmers of heat that rise from the road are whirled into nonexistence by passing traffic.
A flutter of dark movement on the road ahead catches the girl's attention. She's conscious of the gaze of people in their cars, waiting with less patience for the light than Sofia, but bends forward anyway. The dark is a butterfly. One wing torn, it clings to the ground as though it too fears being whirled into nonexistence.
Sofia stands up as a truck rushes past, her breath catching in her throat as she wonders if the truck's brusque haste will put an end to the story just begun. It does not, the butterfly survives, and the girl makes a decision.
Ignoring the curious gaze of the elderly lady who is also waiting patiently, she crouches down and stretches out her hand. You must not touch butterfly wings, she thinks to herself, the powder is how they fly. It crawls up onto her palm, dragging the torn wing. She dislikes the feeling of tickly insect feet, soft as a whisper, pervasive as doubt.
She carries the butterfly off the road, and the light decides it's time for her to walk. Sofia shakes the creature off onto a patch of grass under the watchful eye of curious lady and steps back. A second truck passes, and the butterfly is whirled onto the road again. It is weak, it cannot find its feet, it is dying.
Sofia turns to the elderly lady, and to forestall her words, her opened mouth full of platitudes, she says it first. "There is no hope."
User Reviews
Submitted by woolfe (user info) at 2008-06-04 04:18:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-10-03 06:31:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-10-03 06:18:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Are you playing hard to chat?
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erm - no? what's with the snotty thing btw, and where's my fucking email?
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-10-01 01:59:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dear Apollo88, I'm sorry there is not enough oxygen in the entire world for your ten-gallon head. I blame new zealand though - and myself, mostly new zealand because of Rotorua and some other stuff - like fires, new zelanders like to tear things down - typically things they haven't paid for, usually government funded comission houses built for all the poor people living there (mainly indigenous ones and old people with not many teeth), just so they can cook stuff in their pagan earthen ground ovens (mainly babies and chicken), but still feel a little bit responsible myself (I like licorice - like LOTS of it), for leaving carbon footprints and not adequately trying to offset them. And now your head has no oxygen, and you think liverpool are a good football team.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-09-30 14:24:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-09-28 05:48:24 CDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/98337#2536852
you're doing it again. *One* retort each - sequentially, fuck me. Is it that fucking hard??
Now, for the nitty-gritty. Not ONCE, have I alluded to being better than you. except for my rating nationality gender power and speed. jesus. And way to miss the point miss marple. Sport isn't important or meaningful? Tell THAT to the Indians and Pakistanis who face each other down a chains length of cricket pitch for five days and then smile and shake hands at the end. The same Indians and Pakistanis who point nukes at each other and fight tooth and nail over the Kashmir, a desolate wasteland as barren as your cruel give a fuck conscience. Tell THAT to the Iraqi football team, a team of Kurds and Shi'ites and Sunni's, united under the one banner and common goal, eleven men with a sole purpose, who for a brief moment in a forgotten war against themselves and a foreign invading infidel, made their bickering countrymen shoot at the sky and not each other or the invading oil-stealers. Tell THAT to the Kenyan cattle herder kiddies, looking for a way out of the filth and squalor that their lot and your cruel god has dropped them in . Tell that to Ben Johnson and anyone who's won the Tour de France, tell it to Bebeto who scored a goal for his baby, every asthmatic new zealand child one of your witch-doctors has encouraged to take up swimming, the widow Senna, tell it to kevin costner (fag) in field of dreams and apollo as he cried emo tears because liverpool got a football lesson from Milan - again. jesus. Where the FUCK were *you* when the all blecks were trudging off telstra stadium 4 years ago crying like dr phil guests and your whole country went into meltdown sulk mode? You would've been really popular. [puts on best eric cartman voice] "c'mon guys, it's only rugby. The Australians only beat us for kicks anyhows...let's go and read a book."
And 'intimidated'? By brains and beauty? good grief. I'm possibly, probably, the most beautiful person on the internet you dumbarse. And of *course* I'm smarter - jesus, I'm a male. And don't shoot the pretty messenger, baby, I didn't pick my gender.
and i'm not ocd. sure all my coathangers are identical and i like my kids to put their crayons back in the crayon drawer (first drawer from the top, it's alphabetical. Crayons - nibs first, feltpens, pencils (colours to the left and lead to the right), then miscellaneous - you know pencil-sharpeners and glue and stuff. I'm still not entirely happy with them keeping rubberbands in 'miscellaneous', I mean when I was a kid we hung our rubberbands neatly over a coathanger immediately to the right of 'trousers' in the wardrobe, but what the hey. And I know miscellaneous, in theory, should come before pencils but it's a feng shui thing. I know I know, I'm a bit out there. call me crazy...
Anyway I'm nearly at the f-e-y's, I'm kind of bogged down in the f-e-g's at the moment, I had no idea - they're so many.
Me: Hello?
indiscriminate feg: Yis?
Me: oh - hi. My name is Danger Ranger, and I'm from Australia.
indiscriminate feg: yis?
Me: Well I've taken it upon myself to insult as many kiwi's as possible during this world cup month as I can, and you're next, like in your online white pages..
indiscriminate feg: Me?
Me: Well Mr or Mrs Feg.
indiscriminate feg: There's no Fegs here bro, we're all fags.
Me: hmm.
indiscriminate feg: you knuw mie cuz?
Me: excuse me?
indiscriminate feg: you knuw mie cuz. He's a fag.
Me: erm..........listen good chap, how do you spell your name?
indiscriminate feg: f-a-g. end e'm a gurl..
Me: I see. Okay. But the vowel, try enunciating. How's that again?
indiscriminate feg: thu whet?
Me: The vowel. You know, a, e, i o, and u. Hold your mouth and push the sound out, have you seen My Fair Lady?
indiscriminate feg: new. wu've get tully but newt eny newe steff..or brudbund.
Me: I have to go.
indiscriminate feg: okuy. you went muh ded?
Me? um no.
indiscriminate feg: ewe shewre? Thur'ye buth here.
Me: You have two dads?
indiscriminate feg: of cuse, e'm a feg. **********
The greatest review ever.
Apart from the Milan thing. WHat do you mean AGAIN? We twatted them in '05 and outplayed them in '07.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-09-28 21:03:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
<clears throat>
Actually, I'm my cunt.
And it's cool, Arnie is just battling with himself. He's been attracted to men and kangaroos and secure in his hate of NZers his whole life, before he stumbled over me. And now he's got all these conflicting emotions tearing him in all directions, he's discovering new things and he's afraid.
I'd be antsy too, if I were him.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-09-28 10:18:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Get back under the coffee table where you belong, Em.
If I wanna hear your vioce, I'll beat it outta ya.
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-09-28 10:18:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
okay you caught me out. yes i hate fey, and people who can't play sport. WHY, WHY GOD AM I SO TRANSPA...TRENS...trans....SEE THROUGH. WHY? i hate you god and i hate how you make me worry about the moon being sucked into our gravitational pull. fuck you. and fuck france. but not if they fuck new zealand over in the quarter finals, their backs against the wall in the stade de france, knowing that 80 minutes separates them from ultimate failure in the semis, please god, I hate you sure, but you like white people right? and white people don't come from new zealand. no fucking way.
amen.
*blows kiss*
i love you too god.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-09-28 10:16:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Uh oh 'gay fight'
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-09-28 10:09:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yer fuckin' wit my veggie-lovin' homie, thas whut.
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Fey can be a total cunt sometimes, but she's *my* cunt.
Also, organized sports are pretty pointless in the grand scheme of things, no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-09-28 09:57:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-09-28 09:48:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Unpleasant fellow, below.
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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF ARSEHAT. JESUS.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-09-28 09:48:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Unpleasant fellow, below.
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-09-28 07:59:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i know you're reading this. smirks. drums fingers...
Submitted by ArnieGeddon (user info) at 2007-09-28 06:48:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/98337#2536852
you're doing it again. *One* retort each - sequentially, fuck me. Is it that fucking hard??
Now, for the nitty-gritty. Not ONCE, have I alluded to being better than you. except for my rating nationality gender power and speed. jesus. And way to miss the point miss marple. Sport isn't important or meaningful? Tell THAT to the Indians and Pakistanis who face each other down a chains length of cricket pitch for five days and then smile and shake hands at the end. The same Indians and Pakistanis who point nukes at each other and fight tooth and nail over the Kashmir, a desolate wasteland as barren as your cruel give a fuck conscience. Tell THAT to the Iraqi football team, a team of Kurds and Shi'ites and Sunni's, united under the one banner and common goal, eleven men with a sole purpose, who for a brief moment in a forgotten war against themselves and a foreign invading infidel, made their bickering countrymen shoot at the sky and not each other or the invading oil-stealers. Tell THAT to the Kenyan cattle herder kiddies, looking for a way out of the filth and squalor that their lot and your cruel god has dropped them in . Tell that to Ben Johnson and anyone who's won the Tour de France, tell it to Bebeto who scored a goal for his baby, every asthmatic new zealand child one of your witch-doctors has encouraged to take up swimming, the widow Senna, tell it to kevin costner (fag) in field of dreams and apollo as he cried emo tears because liverpool got a football lesson from Milan - again. jesus. Where the FUCK were *you* when the all blecks were trudging off telstra stadium 4 years ago crying like dr phil guests and your whole country went into meltdown sulk mode? You would've been really popular. [puts on best eric cartman voice] "c'mon guys, it's only rugby. The Australians only beat us for kicks anyhows...let's go and read a book."
And 'intimidated'? By brains and beauty? good grief. I'm possibly, probably, the most beautiful person on the internet you dumbarse. And of *course* I'm smarter - jesus, I'm a male. And don't shoot the pretty messenger, baby, I didn't pick my gender.
and i'm not ocd. sure all my coathangers are identical and i like my kids to put their crayons back in the crayon drawer (first drawer from the top, it's alphabetical. Crayons - nibs first, feltpens, pencils (colours to the left and lead to the right), then miscellaneous - you know pencil-sharpeners and glue and stuff. I'm still not entirely happy with them keeping rubberbands in 'miscellaneous', I mean when I was a kid we hung our rubberbands neatly over a coathanger immediately to the right of 'trousers' in the wardrobe, but what the hey. And I know miscellaneous, in theory, should come before pencils but it's a feng shui thing. I know I know, I'm a bit out there. call me crazy...
Anyway I'm nearly at the f-e-y's, I'm kind of bogged down in the f-e-g's at the moment, I had no idea - they're so many.
Me: Hello?
indiscriminate feg: Yis?
Me: oh - hi. My name is Danger Ranger, and I'm from Australia.
indiscriminate feg: yis?
Me: Well I've taken it upon myself to insult as many kiwi's as possible during this world cup month as I can, and you're next, like in your online white pages..
indiscriminate feg: Me?
Me: Well Mr or Mrs Feg.
indiscriminate feg: There's no Fegs here bro, we're all fags.
Me: hmm.
indiscriminate feg: you knuw mie cuz?
Me: excuse me?
indiscriminate feg: you knuw mie cuz. He's a fag.
Me: erm..........listen good chap, how do you spell your name?
indiscriminate feg: f-a-g. end e'm a gurl..
Me: I see. Okay. But the vowel, try enunciating. How's that again?
indiscriminate feg: thu whet?
Me: The vowel. You know, a, e, i o, and u. Hold your mouth and push the sound out, have you seen My Fair Lady?
indiscriminate feg: new. wu've get tully but newt eny newe steff..or brudbund.
Me: I have to go.
indiscriminate feg: okuy. you went muh ded?
Me? um no.
indiscriminate feg: ewe shewre? Thur'ye buth here.
Me: You have two dads?
indiscriminate feg: of cuse, e'm a feg.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-09-27 12:08:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-09-12 11:38:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-09-12 07:10:15 PDT (#)
Ranking: 0
America has NO credibility when it comes to establishing "real and credible" threat to our collective selves.
What makes Iran having nuclear weapons scarier than America, the Bully of all bullies, having them?
American has proven again and again that they don't answer to anyone but themselves.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-07-30 20:22:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
If I was drunk, this would have made me cry, but instead, it just made me really sad.
Bitch.
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-27 09:06:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
All four of my chins like this.
Submitted by Zebra (user info) at 2007-07-26 20:28:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very nice.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-07-26 17:27:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I think you should try to write something from the perspective of someone who is the complete polar opposite of you. In my experience, that has been both the most challenging, yet rewarding, type of creativity.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:21:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It is always a great comfort to me that this is so.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:15:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
oh, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they are always fair, unbiased, and just.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:14:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm sure I asked for it. People on Uber wouldn't hate without cause!
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:11:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 03:42:55 PDT (#)
Ranking: 0
experima - I have which?
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ah, just that you've been "hated on" by people before. that's all I meant.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 16:00:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Chaos - I know. I always want to put a hundred and one things into every sentence. Anything in particular?
ooQueso - I'd be interested in knowing where.
scourge - Oh, we don't? Ok. My bad.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-07-26 11:33:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2007-07-26 11:31:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
She should have said 'yo nigga lets go gets some grits and the asscakes at you sis's yo fucking ching har bang won sing chu chu chu. You fucking cunt.'
Then died.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-26 11:28:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I hated the first sentence, but this was a good read.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2007-07-26 11:13:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wonderful
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-07-26 10:24:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 06:42:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
scourge - None of it matters, but we all care.
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Wait, what?
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-07-26 09:45:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-07-26 09:29:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i too would go 1.5... decent but not kicker of all ass.
but I'm lazy so..... round up.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-07-26 08:50:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Tres Good
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-07-26 08:04:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:08:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Last line
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Good stuff. A bit clunky sometimes, but well thought out for the most part.
Write more, dammit.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-26 06:42:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
experima - I have which?
scourge - None of it matters, but we all care.
toe, thanks.
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-07-26 03:58:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Comment
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2007-07-26 01:54:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This made me sad. Maybe 'cause I'm all emo in the first place, maybe 'cause you're a good writer, or maybe both.
Ace.
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2007-07-26 00:54:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Lost me a couple times there...
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-07-25 23:25:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-07-25 22:28:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The sun ain't bright upon us now.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-07-25 21:56:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
THIS WAS ALRIGHT, BUT NOTHING I'D CALL A 'KICKER OF ALL ASS'.
HAVE A 1.5 BECAUSE I'M FEELING GENEROUS. (IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING ANYWAY.)
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-07-25 21:55:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by ikari_shinji (user info) at 2007-07-25 14:59:29 PDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You posted again.
You posted something well-written and entertaining.
PAY ATTENTION, MULTITUDES. This is why she doesn't get hate.
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AND WHO THE SOLITARY FUCK ARE YOU?
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-07-25 19:53:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Cyrus (user info) at 2007-07-25 19:37:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
interesting
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-07-25 19:25:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
OI! WAHINE! GUESS WHAT!
This was good.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:50:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by ikari_shinji (user info) at 2007-07-25 14:59:29 PDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You posted again.
You posted something well-written and entertaining.
PAY ATTENTION, MULTITUDES. This is why she doesn't get hate.
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oh, brother. yes, she has.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:49:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-07-25 15:03:18 PDT (#)
Ranking: 2
YAY!
1 <3 Fey.
What can I say?
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:37:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:10:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Shlongy - Waiting on the one you promised me of you wearing nothing but a negligé. That was the deal, dear.
TTOM - But of course.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:10:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Now I have guilt...and that NEVER happens.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:08:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Last line
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:07:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Where's that picture you promised to email me wearing just the bra and panties?
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:07:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
TTOM. I know the name, I don't know how I am him.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:06:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-25 23:05:44 BST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hello.
Thank you.
Ron Paul?
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EXACTLY!
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:05:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Hello.
Thank you.
Ron Paul?
Charmed, Rob.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:03:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
YAY!
1 <3 Fey.
What can I say?
Submitted by Bohme (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:03:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I fapped a short while ago.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-07-25 18:02:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
JUST LIKE RON PAUL
*waits*
Submitted by ikari_shinji (user info) at 2007-07-25 17:59:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You posted again.
You posted something well-written and entertaining.
PAY ATTENTION, MULTITUDES. This is why she doesn't get hate.