Deviance

Should not our hearts and souls come first, when finding a mate and life to share, if not for the flesh, but love, we thirst? It seems so crass, what's beneath one's skirt or pants should determine such affairs. Should not our hearts and souls...

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Indentured Platitudes

[b]indentured platitudes[/b] by: dankedonuts https://dankedonuts.sofurry.com/ a coil of serpentine forms writhed atop a rounded perch. below them, more, and more still.

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“Premonition” - The Day Of

The harmony between carnivores and herbivores always felt like a lofty platitude, but he never expected to come so close to the reality. he continues eating some noodles prepared earlier.

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Hubris -Long form #2 writinggroupchallenge

#3 of writinggroupchallenge writing group challenge #23, "it was a trite platitude, but that didn't make it any less accurate." my take on a trite platitude: it offends the gods if man creates something that is perfect.

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Conversation

Empty promises atop a meaningless platitude. rote response and cliché phrase. do my words have meaning? am i talking to the ceiling? maybe i should stop. you talk. i'll listen.

Man\'s Best Friend - Intro

"what a big heart i have," i crooned to myself, oblivious to any such pleas and platitudes. "the better to love you with." slowly, deliberately, i lifted my boot, pressed the sole against the couch, and pushed.

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Hometown: City Slicker

These little platitudes were worse than the funeral. almost. “no! no, i'm… it's just when i heard you was comin' back to town i got thinkin' and…" he wrings his hat again. “i did you wrong, wes. i'm sorry.

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Two Worlds Collide - Chapter 12 - The Measure of a Man

All of these platitudes and thanks, however, were starting to sound as if they were intended to be conciliatory. his next words confirmed my fears. "however, as ms.

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The Avian's Apprentice: Chapter 14 - Elacce

He wasn’t about to let more platitudes escape his beak. “what are you doing with tontashi? what did kelkera ever do to us? what are we even doing here?”

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Maybe Stop Telling This Man What He Wants

How often hath that platitude been strangled into song? by men who do not want, but have their little and their more. in rhymes perforce, in meter bad, they serve it to the poor.

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Sons of winter chapter 5: Sharphorn

Lock her in a cage gilded with platitudes, and she would hesitate before every hard choice laid before her. fortunately for aleks, the revelry didn't descend into crudeness.

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Counseling

She had expected a counselor who would give her some ridiculous platitudes, maybe say something about how she just had to try harder, and leave her no better off than she was before.

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