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Hibakusha by ~spinalSHIVER:iconspinalSHIVER:

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I watched the blood bloom on the gauze. My eyes followed the creeping veins of scarlet as they threaded through pure white. I stared at the branches sprouting off the edge of a thicker, central vein and wondered if the veins bleeding underneath looked like that. I could feel my capillaries throbbing in the pads of my fingers when I touched the almost soaked gauze.
"It's about time for a change."
©2009 ~spinalSHIVER
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Author's Comments

Hibakusha is the Japanese word for the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

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~laurasayshi Mar 30, 2009, 7:23:19 AM
i love you.

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and theres this burning, just like theres always been.
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~spinalSHIVER Mar 30, 2009, 2:11:40 PM
i love you too.

but that doesnt tell me anything.

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I think I threw up in my mouth a little. You are seriously twisted, darling. ~mrsweasel
:iconlaurasayshi:
~laurasayshi Mar 31, 2009, 6:54:37 AM
its very possible that i find the title of this more interesting than the actual writing itself.

the word survivor can be diverse, i guess, and the way you use it for this is interesting. just how you wrote the whole thing with an obvious topic in mind, and then at the end you sort of turn it around, but vaguely. i can see at least two, possibly three, points of view that could come off of that ending. but the title of it sort of pulls it together in a way that i'm sure you intended.

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and theres this burning, just like theres always been.
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~spinalSHIVER Mar 31, 2009, 9:02:35 AM
the title has nothing to do with the writing. it almost never does.

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I think I threw up in my mouth a little. You are seriously twisted, darling. ~mrsweasel
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Mood: Adoration ~mrsweasel Apr 1, 2009, 7:33:38 PM
I like it. A lot.

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"Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that... deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid! Movies, books, TV, music-They're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself." JCV
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~spinalSHIVER Apr 6, 2009, 3:28:15 PM
thanks =] and thanks for the fave too.

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I think I threw up in my mouth a little. You are seriously twisted, darling. ~mrsweasel
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~mrsweasel Apr 9, 2009, 1:43:30 PM
Any time, darling.

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"Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that... deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid! Movies, books, TV, music-They're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself." JCV
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~aimsnapdiana Jun 6, 2009, 5:52:24 AM
laura tried to get all philosophical on you. and you shot her down. HIGH FIVE.

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The love was good, but life was hell
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~spinalSHIVER Aug 9, 2009, 6:39:09 AM
Lol. Thanks. she did have a valid point though. I probably just wasn't up to 'talking it over.'

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I think I threw up in my mouth a little. You are seriously twisted, darling. ~mrsweasel
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