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"FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, I LAID DORMANT! WHO DARES TO DISTURB MY-Oh, it's you."

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Lady Green

A praying mantis lives upon

The grandkid sunflower

It seems female for all I know

Though quite small

With arching abdomen

She lets me close

Poses even for photos

When lounging on a plate of seeds

She glints her eyes ferocious green

Then slaps a foolish bumblebee

She rips another's head

To munch still in the summer light

Pondering a name perhaps

Or any curious innocence

The cricket plays a constant song

In flower potted nooks

The moon does so appear

And the lady hides beneath the leaves.

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Does anybody know how to bring back a dog to life?

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Mary Shelley was 24 when Percy died.

24, people.

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I don't want to feel bad about the things need to I do.

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Rainbow Patches

I carry so much shit

with me

chestnuts, beads and petals

fill my bags

whatever knick-knacks you'd

say, I smile

but once I lost my

Bulbasaur

and it found its way back

to me.

It's dangerous to go

alone

the heart is a heavy

burden here

so Wonder lends its

bravery --

or so I thought yet what

if they fear,

too, when breaking down lose,

astray?

This silly oath, I feel,

is shared --

such minute nothings plus a

nobody

are magnetic threads in

rainbow quilt

bright patches that I

wanna be --

would I then not protect

'em all?

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Sylvia Plath, aged 26, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated December 26, 1958)

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I finished the novel yesterday, I will write a more detailed review later, but I have a question.

I've read some reviews and many people highlighted how scary and chilling the story sometimes is. But I kid you not, I don't remember being scared at all.

And I don't specifically like spiders either, so, I don't know.

So anyone here who has read The Silence Factory, were you scared?

I'm reading The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins, and it's very fascinating, I still like how captivating her storytelling is, but man... she is so didactic with the (I suppose) gay romance(s).

So far nothing has been spellt out that much yet, I'm still around the 1/3 of the novel, yet I'm 90% sure Henry's and Sophie's stories would turn into a gay romance. But idk, maybe it's just me but one can build relationship without one character randomly seeing the other naked with bulging eyes. Or outright worshipping the other person with very suggestive thoughts after like a mere few days of knowing him.

And before anyone comes at me, the suggested, behind the curtain hetero sex scene was again very didactic and cheap way to justify pregnancy in the very next diary entry.

But we are yet to see how it all unfolds...

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Okay, I'm reaching the end of this novel.

(I can return another book to the library that I actually read from cover to cover yay)

Anyways...

So-so-so much mystery! I wonder how much Collins will reveal in the last (I think) 2 chapters, but aaaa I feel like I wanna know more about the past. But I think she will not make things too explicit :(

SPOILERS

And, truthfully, I'm so sorry for those spiders. I feel like they didn't really have to die. They all were prisoners, they did not enjoy being enslaved and used for stupid monetary gains. They should have been released. But, on the other hand, I do realize they had no chance surviving the flood or I guess England, or getting back to their home. And if they happened to be recaptured, then Ashmore-Percy would continue his rotten business.

END OF SPOILERS

It seems like Collins tends to dramatize the end of her novels, seeing how eventful they all are, though I think The Binding's ending is really shitty XD.

This is a very cunning way to hook her readers. I wonder if she would write a story that cover more books. Like trilogies.

Who knows?

But yeah, the way she treats and signals romance is way too didactic. My opinion hasn't changed.

But I wonder whether Henry's feelings are related to / caused by the silk. 🤔

I'm reading The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins, and it's very fascinating, I still like how captivating her storytelling is, but man... she is so didactic with the (I suppose) gay romance(s).

So far nothing has been spellt out that much yet, I'm still around the 1/3 of the novel, yet I'm 90% sure Henry's and Sophie's stories would turn into a gay romance. But idk, maybe it's just me but one can build relationship without one character randomly seeing the other naked with bulging eyes. Or outright worshipping the other person with very suggestive thoughts after like a mere few days of knowing him.

And before anyone comes at me, the suggested, behind the curtain hetero sex scene was again very didactic and cheap way to justify pregnancy in the very next diary entry.

But we are yet to see how it all unfolds...

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Sir Edward is a manipulative asshole, really.

I'm reading The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins, and it's very fascinating, I still like how captivating her storytelling is, but man... she is so didactic with the (I suppose) gay romance(s).

So far nothing has been spellt out that much yet, I'm still around the 1/3 of the novel, yet I'm 90% sure Henry's and Sophie's stories would turn into a gay romance. But idk, maybe it's just me but one can build relationship without one character randomly seeing the other naked with bulging eyes. Or outright worshipping the other person with very suggestive thoughts after like a mere few days of knowing him.

And before anyone comes at me, the suggested, behind the curtain hetero sex scene was again very didactic and cheap way to justify pregnancy in the very next diary entry.

But we are yet to see how it all unfolds...

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Okay, Henry's obsession is realistic considering how broken he is, it's just idk... things don't have to be this didactic?

Maybe it's just my perception.

I'm reading The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins, and it's very fascinating, I still like how captivating her storytelling is, but man... she is so didactic with the (I suppose) gay romance(s).

So far nothing has been spellt out that much yet, I'm still around the 1/3 of the novel, yet I'm 90% sure Henry's and Sophie's stories would turn into a gay romance. But idk, maybe it's just me but one can build relationship without one character randomly seeing the other naked with bulging eyes. Or outright worshipping the other person with very suggestive thoughts after like a mere few days of knowing him.

And before anyone comes at me, the suggested, behind the curtain hetero sex scene was again very didactic and cheap way to justify pregnancy in the very next diary entry.

But we are yet to see how it all unfolds...

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I'm reading The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins, and it's very fascinating, I still like how captivating her storytelling is, but man... she is so didactic with the (I suppose) gay romance(s).

So far nothing has been spellt out that much yet, I'm still around the 1/3 of the novel, yet I'm 90% sure Henry's and Sophy's stories would turn into a gay romance. But idk, maybe it's just me but one can build relationship without one character randomly seeing the other naked with bulging eyes. Or outright worshipping the other person with very suggestive thoughts after like a mere few days of knowing him.

And before anyone comes at me, the suggested, behind the curtain hetero sex scene was again very didactic and cheap way to justify pregnancy in the very next diary entry.

But we are yet to see how it all unfolds...

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And believe it or not, my mind gave birth to another one in the morning...

being a writer is like babysitting 15 feral children you gave birth to in your mind and they all have knives and secrets

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being a writer is like babysitting 15 feral children you gave birth to in your mind and they all have knives and secrets

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I go showering and my mind starts to translate... 🤔