M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 24

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Glimpses

There is something very wrong with noticing,
When I look the same as you.
Of course, I don’t look like you,
Forever comforted that I’m only comparing.
I’m not looking,
Just trying to find the parts of you, in me.
That urge to let my gaze linger for longer,
Wonder what would happen if you looked up.
The fear, excitement, and self-loathing,
It is a constant whirling background noise.
In those moments when I fear a word
That could define and alter everything…

Weekdays and Polygons

Sometimes it take...

Everyday Love

Nine everyday women living everyday lives, going out into the world and finding love with other women. Because sometimes, love really can be as simple as that.

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Penalties For Late Returns

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Pale

Sometimes people watching gets you into trouble. You notice all kinds of things; things you aren’t supposed to. The people you are watching, they are changing. But into what? Are you next?

So you’re standing in the queue for the checkout, clunky red basket in hand and bouncing off of your thigh in semi-impatience. There’s only one person in front of you but whatever they’re buying seems to be taking an age to be scanned.

Biting down the sigh you want to expel from your throat, you ...

Everyday Love – Sarah and Matilda

Everyday Love

Nine everyday women living everyday lives, going out into the world and finding love with other women. Because sometimes, love really can be as simple as that.

Cereal

over cereal
they put the world to rights and
everyone was saved

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The Performance

The words are just there,
Sitting right on the tip of my tongue
And stretching up to be let out,
Like toddlers wanting to be carried.
They sit hunched over
Somewhere at the back of my head,
Like trolls on Twitter looking for their next victim,
When I’m in the middle of a conversation
In which it’s the perfect time to say it, loud.
From my rib cage they hang loose,
Like sloths
Lazing and waiting,
Knowing today isn’t the day for opening up.
Behind kidneys they loiter
Like wayward fae,
Kicking sharp toes in remin...

Everyday Love – Emily and Abigail

Everyday Love

Nine everyday women living everyday lives, going out into the world and finding love with other women. Because sometimes, love really can be as simple as that.

Victorious

You watch as he intertwines his fingers with hers, ignoring the way it feels like his fingers are talons clawing through your gut.

She smiles at the contact and squeezes back with practiced familiarity. Her head turns, and she freezes you with a smile. She may as well be sliding an ice knife right through you when her gaze falls to yours.

You smile extra wide, as though all is as it should be. Big, bright and bold, the picture of happiness at their happiness.

But she knows. She’s al...