She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her “Snow.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: fantasy snow-white sci-fi fairytales retellings



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I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: humor random drinking alcohol



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Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: life philosophy memory forgetting



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I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,
My darkness is composed of him.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: poetry dark fantasy horror horror-romance



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I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: sex dark relationship possession horror-romance owning



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Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of raw nerves and open sores; she was insanity, wrapped up in the thin, transient wrappings of a temporary lucidity; and she was afraid, because an innate desire lay in the bottom reaches of her psyche for the very poison that was killing her.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: fear insanity dreams madness loneliness horror nightmares terror



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Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one desperately-sought phrase would be the key to her salvation. Most things were like that: excess in times of abundance, and shortages in times of dearth. Life, she realized, was an unbalanced scale, and would never weigh in one's favor, struggle as one might.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: life philosophy depression



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It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: sad feelings depression hopelessness mental-illness exhaustion



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Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: humor men satire twilight



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That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: friendship hurt growing-apart



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