(…) when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside. Inside where it’s warm. Just a little thing, being inside where it’s warm, but really such a big thing. About the most important thing in the world.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.
Back in January, our research biologists came across this octopus when pulling up a stone crab trap in Cedar Key. Octopus can get in...
Commission for https://www.deviantart.com/sweet-n-treat
Forgot to mention it on Deviantart - I’ve opened Fur Affinity account!
by Andrey
Back in January, our research biologists came across this octopus when pulling up a stone crab trap in Cedar Key. Octopus can get in...
Commission for https://www.deviantart.com/sweet-n-treat
Forgot to mention it on Deviantart - I’ve opened Fur Affinity account!
by Andrey
