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T. J. Rayner

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T. J. Rayner

22
Writings
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Roots

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

Roots grow where they cannot see

They steel my sticks and burn them for their fires

Fires that make air they think I can save

But roots grow deep below the surface.


Roots grow where they cannot see

They cut down my trunk and use it for weapons

Weapons they use to remove more of me

But roots grow deep below the surface.


Roots grow where they cannot see

They try to take what’s left of me, but I’m ...

Poetry

YA fiction

Drunk And Brave

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

Mouth full of achohol

Pours hot down my throat

Pours cold down my shirt

Fist full of fabric

Fist full of hair

Fist full of anger

Fist full of bone and flesh and muscle.

Mouth full of blood

Pours red down my chin

Pours red down my shirt

Legs that walk

Legs that stumble

Legs that tremble

Legs that collapse and fold and fall...

Poetry

Action

3
Gay Weather

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

I woke with the sun

she shone bright and yellow in my eyes.

Her radiant smile contagious.

She brought color back to my skin and warmth back into my life.

So I shouted “I love you ray of love!” As loud as I could at the sky.


then the clouds came.

They covered the beauty in the sky.

And rained and rained.

They made the world cold and dark with all light stripped from it.

So I yelled “I’m sorry clou...

Poetry

1
Tunnel

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

With my limited body strength I lowered my self in to the tunnel below. It’s was wide and tall and the drop sent me to my knees, as I stood I wiped the dust and dirt of them. Looking around, this tunnel was grimy. Thick layers of moss sat on the damp stones and it had a smell of rotting rodents which hung heavy in my nostrils. Oh how I would love to bring benji down here. I knelt down to see the d...

Mystery

Grudge Plants

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

I’m one to hold a grudge

It’s grows with my nurturing care

And I hide it away


I hide it away in a conservatory

Where I keep all my grudges

blossoming and blooming


I keep the key on me

No one else can get in

To my home of anger....

Poetry

YA fiction

1
Mother

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

Flying feet first towards the waves. My grip on my sisters hand tightens as the preasure try’s to rip us apart. We tear through the air faster and faster. We hold our breaths as we’re both pulled under but we don’t slow. The water grips our ankles and throws us about as we get deeper and deeper.


Concrete breaks our fall. My sister lies flat on her front while I rush back to my feet. We don’t have...

Science fiction

Adventure

1
Deer Indigo

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

She hugged her long limbs to herself and her comfy clothes scrunched up around her body. She was a deer in headlights. Dark deep eyes looked up at him. Her long lashes fluttered as she blinked. Freckles covered her honey skin and pointy features. He imagined tracing his fingers over her face, the velvet of her cheeks and her satin eyelids under his tips. Then he’d run his hands through her hair, b...

Romance

4
Grateful For Nothing

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

He dramatically through his arms up in response to her mocking tone. He didn’t give a damn and she evnied it. She wanted to learn how to be so free. “I’ve never met anyone like you before.”


“You should be grateful for that.” The look of a warm warning burned into her as he laughed....

Mystery

YA fiction

1
Indigo

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

Inside her was blue, a storm over an ocean. No one could connect to her without drowning within it. Dying with her violent waves of emotions, indigo just wanted to be saved. Instead of this tempest, she wanted clear skies. Give herself room to breathe. Only calming her sea of feelings wasn’t that easy....

Drama

1
Gold And Silver

T. J. Rayner

1 min read

Lying as though she was lifeless on a cold cobble floor. I sat beside her. Lifting her fingers one by one to inspect the burns which coated her fingertips. I watched as her chest rose and fell faster than my running heart which sat heavy in my throat. I layed her hand ontop of mine, finger tips facing the safe souls of the sun rising in the sky. Her head rolled to face me, a smile.


“Your face it’...

Mystery

YA fiction

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