Hive profile

medusaeffect

@medusaeffect

208 followers 42 following 283 posts Reputation 48.13

medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Oct 25, 2019, 4:23 AM UTC

Blood red

You are measured not by how you love, but by how others love you...that's why it hurts. Wait, is that right? Have I got that backwards? Your worth is measured not by how others love you, but by how y…

16 upvotes 11 replies $0.13
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Oct 22, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

Churning

Why didn't she tell me. The feeling gnawed at the pit of my stomach. This woman called me about her ovarian cyst, her half drunk mother-in-law on the tubing outing, but now when the most devastating…

8 upvotes 11 replies $0.01
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Oct 16, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

Sweetness

It was the last of summer. The bees seemed desperate making a last effort to collecting nectar. The hummingbirds, far wiser had long abandoned the fluted gems in the garden. Marla pulled the white co…

29 upvotes 9 replies $0.09
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Oct 8, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

White Hot Mess

A friend said the hottest thing about her was that she could make macaroni and cheese without a recipe. I wondered if it was any good. After all, there is a vast difference between good mac and bad.…

13 upvotes 9 replies $1.37
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Sep 7, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

The Hyena

"Your nose itches." "No it doesn't." "Yes it does, I can see it." "How can you see it? ...leave me alone." Lucy let her pigtails bounce as she stormed away from Dusty. Even though she wasn't looking…

8 upvotes 9 replies $0.03
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Aug 21, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

Tears of Blood

"It's time you learned your lesson. No one is out there and you are never going to leave this room." That's what it sounded like to Wilma, that no one understood that she loved Trap and the curtain o…

7 upvotes 17 replies $0.01
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Aug 21, 2019, 2:43 AM UTC

The Giver

The day had finally arrived. Colton was ten and there was nothing anyone could do about it. All afternoon he sat with his nose pressed up against the screen. His father was late as usual. Colton thou…

21 upvotes 3 replies $0.00
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Aug 7, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

The Spider

It was as if he didn't exist. The palm size spider laid across the rock invisible to the unsuspecting eye. Blending in caused no small yelp when the toddler's foot slipped across the surface and caus…

7 upvotes 2 replies $0.01
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Aug 6, 2019, 3:13 PM UTC

The Rocky Stream

Mercy snapped the leafy green twig in her hand and put it to her nose. The spicy small made her mouth water. The promise of sassafras tea pulled her from her slumber. She put the small pan on the fro…

12 upvotes 7 replies $0.01
medusaeffect
@medusaeffect Aug 2, 2019, 3:58 AM UTC

Creature

"If you had half a brain you'd be dangerous!" His blown out cheeks were aimed at the frail looking child cowering beneath him. It was hardly his fault that Blaze was as dumb as he looked. He was alwa…

2 upvotes 2 replies $0.00