The Last Laugh

Mr. P

A gray sky and white clouds tower over the horizons, weeping down a colorless army of tears. A tree at her back and pencil in hand provide shelter from the molding blandness abound, but cannot hold back the rain. Streaked with grief the glassy trails dividing her expressions make velvet skin even easier to read, and as the warriors gather at the base of a breathless plunge, imminent defeat is all but assured. Then, from the highest bridge, the invisible heroes cascade apart, meeting allied enemies not as foes, but as mirrors falling to a fate one and the same. Audible splashdown opens her up to the forsaken hillscape refuged under the same tree, and the long shadows grasping toward the bloodied waters below her. Gazing down, the lines of a water warped doodle are crystalizing outward on bound notebook paper, and suddenly, it all makes sense. As a smile slowly creeps its way onto her frozen lips, she giggles. Then laughs. She laughs knowing that the prince charming from her diary is not coming, nor are the vocal mice she so often depicts, nor are any other other woodland creatures. No best friends are coming to comfort her, no nurses to care for her. The friendly soldiers promised are not on the way for rescue, and the emergency supplies will never greet her. Her family is not coming back. Nobody is. Ever. Subtly the laughter subsides and the giggles muffle, lighting storms realizing there is nothing funny left. They are all dead. And leaning again her broken gray hair against the broken gray bark with no broken gray eyes in this broken gray vastness, she wishes for another to share this last laugh. The echoes of her own are dissipating into the still gray air.

- Came to me thinking about how, “he who laughs last,” would probably only be laughing if he wasn’t the last. If that makes sense. Special thanks to Snar for some inspiration to finally write this one.

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 7 months ago (4 minutes after post)

Dumbfounded! Thats how I feel…I was all into it, my face in the palm of my hand as I read, my eyes close to the scree. Beautiful beautiful imagery, especially the rain drops on the tree…this totally feels like the stuff I should be analyzing for lit class thats due tommorow! Seriously, professional level stuff. Im jealous and in awe! And I’m also very glad to have inspired you :D

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 7 months ago (9 minutes after post)

Thanks a bunch man. :-)

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 7 months ago (10 minutes after post)

Velvety bark, that’ll stick with me for a while.

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NikAngelo 3 #
An Unknown Location | 7 months ago (34 minutes after post)

Nice

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

he who laughs last didnt get the joke.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

advice queen… ish wrote:
he who laughs last didnt get the joke.

ps, loved it.

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

advice queen… ish wrote:
he who laughs last didnt get the joke.

Or thinks slowest lol.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Mr. P wrote:

advice queen… ish wrote:
he who laughs last didnt get the joke.

Or thinks slowest lol.

lol works either way, doesnt it? its rather good. can you write more for us?

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

advice queen… ish wrote:
lol works either way, doesnt it? its rather good. can you write more for us?

I am working on one, but getting poems out between short stories is taking me awhile.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Mr. P wrote:

advice queen… ish wrote:
lol works either way, doesnt it? its rather good. can you write more for us?

I am working on one, but getting poems out between short stories is taking me awhile.

fab. im writing a story myself, but theres so much to it and its so complicated im having trouble organizing my thoughts onto the page.

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

advice queen… ish wrote:
fab. im writing a story myself, but theres so much to it and its so complicated im having trouble organizing my thoughts onto the page.

Yeah, I’m a big fan of the writer’s block.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Mr. P wrote:

advice queen… ish wrote:
fab. im writing a story myself, but theres so much to it and its so complicated im having trouble organizing my thoughts onto the page.

Yeah, I’m a big fan of the writer’s block.

sux to be us no? lol

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

God stories are hard. I’m having trouble with the two I’m writing.

Did I just wander into this conversation without permission? yes yes I did…

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Snar wrote:
God stories are hard. I’m having trouble with the two I’m writing.

Did I just wander into this conversation without permission? yes yes I did…

lolololol seriouly, your silas in the flesh.

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

advice queen… ish wrote:

Snar wrote:
God stories are hard. I’m having trouble with the two I’m writing.

Did I just wander into this conversation without permission? yes yes I did…

lolololol seriouly, your silas in the flesh.

*chuckles and strikes a dashing pose with a dagger in one hand and a stolen bag of gold coins in the other*

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Snar wrote:

advice queen… ish wrote:

Snar wrote:
God stories are hard. I’m having trouble with the two I’m writing.

Did I just wander into this conversation without permission? yes yes I did…

lolololol seriouly, your silas in the flesh.

*chuckles and strikes a dashing pose with a dagger in one hand and a stolen bag of gold coins in the other*

*POKEMON! I will travel, across the land, searching far and wide…*

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

Oh jeesus christ P, way to ruin a brilliant moment you slack-jawed scallywag *slaps*

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

I lol’d hard.

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

hahahaha

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

haha! hmm… silas with a dagger and pouch of coins? more like a pouch of stolen car keys… you know he can litteraly steal the shirt off you back… and you wont notice till someone has pointed it out!!

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

and he has this thing abotu chains, zippers and black leather… but he’s a bit of a dork.

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (3 weeks, 6 days after post)

I have a leather jacket, I love it.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (4 weeks after post)

Snar wrote:
I have a leather jacket, I love it.

lololol silas and his leather. he always adds random chain and crap cuz its “cool”. he’s also a memeber of the fifth legion, aka hes a vampire. but not like oooh, im undead gimme blood, theres this virus that stops human’s ability to reproduce cells so his friend (sciency guy named milo, also in the f.l. has to give them monthly injections for treatment. in emergancy and befor ethey learned the injection stuff, they drank blood and adopted live cells hence the “i vont to drink your blud” thing.) anyway, hes otherwise just like ppl. as is julian and his twin sis elena. woot!!!

hey can you write some more for us? its pretty cool.

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (4 weeks after post)

Wow, I sound like a pretty cool character, I like it haha.

Who do you want to write more, me or p? I’m sure we both inevitably will.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (4 weeks after post)

Snar wrote:
Wow, I sound like a pretty cool character, I like it haha.

Who do you want to write more, me or p? I’m sure we both inevitably will.

both. i shud too…. we shud totally make a site for story posting!!!!!! omg omg omg!!!!

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (4 weeks after post)

i can totally make a google group rite now!!! what shud it be called?????

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Mr. P 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (4 weeks, 1 day after post)

DEATH WATER!!!

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months ago (4 weeks, 1 day after post)

Mr. P wrote:
DEATH WATER!!!

cool!!!! maybe… hmm…. what do u think snar? it could be like, a public site were ppl can share stories and poems and get opinions critics and help etc or just sharing!! what do you guys think?

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months ago (4 weeks, 1 day after post)

Google group sure, but I can offer perhaps better methods. I ran an “rp” site for awhile, it was on proboards. I know a few networks to advertise for story and rp sites as well.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months ago (1 month after post)

Snar wrote:
Google group sure, but I can offer perhaps better methods. I ran an “rp” site for awhile, it was on proboards. I know a few networks to advertise for story and rp sites as well.

ooh, can u set one up?

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Snar 41 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months ago (1 month after post)

Gah, my ex did all the formatting and registering…i just mod’d….I’m awful with that stuff.

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carpe_noctem 12 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months ago (1 month after post)

Snar wrote:
Gah, my ex did all the formatting and registering…i just mod’d….I’m awful with that stuff.

hmmmmmm….

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