http://slow.writerscafe.org/alienaritist7812 The original writings of author Lexi Melton en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775984135 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 You say it’s art. More like a dartThrough desensitized skinWhere no one winsAnd some convincingTo stop my wincingAt the profanity you label “art.”You say it’s art. More like a cartOf poisoned food You say is good.You blind my eyes With what you call wise. At the pornography t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947843/ You dark blazon crimson sun!How dare you take my bacon!SHUN.Red and crispy, trimmed in fat…Drat. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947841/ Um.Excuse you.Bugs are animals too.It’s not a plant. It’s not a fungus.And no. Not “ew”.Majesty.Intricate partsSo littleSo smart.One of my Biggest PetPeeves.You can’t tell me.What I can and cannot see. You can’t tell meThat I can’t love a cockroach. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947839/ Billowing smoke so black and grayWhat is this charcoal I smell today?Death escaping from the white hot beastits red hot belly burning my toastdarn it. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947838/ Justify your black bowtieand your skin thin blondewith cherry lips and corn straw hair.Think you’re a big shotyou grounded rocket man?Shooting for the starsand landing in petuniasDon’t you remember that magical place?With the lemon shrimp platter?Doesn’t it matter?At all to you?Wel.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947836/ Aug. 18th, 2017Rick was feeling a bit nervous. Today, was the first day of school, and he was going to be restarting his senior year, which would have been fine, except for the fact that all of his friends had graduated, and were now entering their sophomore or freshman year in college. Jessica, the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947490/ April 8th, 2017The week had been pretty calm and comfortable compared to what Cadi and Rick had been used to. Sure there were a lot of people from the press that kept trying to get in talk to them, and they had to talk to about a billion different policemen and investigators about some of the events.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947489/ March 31st, 2017Rick came back to the world slowly in a familiar way to when he came out of his time coma. He could feel the soft linens tucked around him, hear the soft beeps of medical equipment, and the murmurings of voices. His eyes felt heavy-almost as if they had cement on them, and he struggl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947488/ March 29th, 2017Rick could not stop shivering, and neither could Cadi. The two of them trudged through the storm, occasionally stopping to heal the frostbite that kept creeping up on them. “Rick-I’m-t-tired…” Cadi whined, forcing herself to take another step forward. “.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947485/ March 28th, 2017Cadi picked at her fingernails nervously as she sat on her bed. Rick sat on the bed across from her, jostling his leg up and down. They had just taken the anklet things off using their abilities to fast forward time, and now...The two of them were waiting.Over the past week or so, th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947484/ March 19th, 2017West lay there in the snow, alone in the woods, feeling very confused. What just happened?He had been shot and then-suddenly his wound was gone? Had Cadi somehow healed him with her powers?Shakily, the teacher stood up, leaning on a tree for support and wiping his blood off his hands.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947483/ March 19th, 2017A couple of days later, Rick was discharged from the hospital. He wasn’t entirely sure how no one had realized who they were or what was going on, but then he also thought back to whenever he would see things on the news about things like this. He probably would have never reco.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947477/ March 17th, 2017Cadi was curled up in a hospital armchair beside her brother’s bed, crying silently. Please don’t die Rick…  she thought to herself. Don’t die.The fact that she had accidentally forwarded them all through time a year and half only made it easier on Harry.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947475/ March 12th, ????Rick felt what he thought was a tear on his cheek, but when he reached up to wipe it from his face, he realized that it was blood. “Oh…” he murmured. “I remember now… I remember everything.”He was still in his time coma, standing outside of a fad.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1947474/ Oct. 1st, 2015Rick sat there on the floor in the dark, listening to Cadi’s soft breathing as she lay in his lap. He had cried it all out, and now he was sitting there thinking of what to do now. As he sat there, he suddenly heard something. Confused, he slowly lifted Cadi out of his lap so he .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946737/ Oct. 1st, 2015“Mr. Johnston?!” Cadi said in surprise. “What are you doing here West?” Harry demanded. “Don’t worry-I came alone.” the man told him, holding his hands up in defense. “Then what was that gunshot?”“Oh that was me.” Emille.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946734/ Sept. 23rd, 2015West stood outside the police station, feeling sour. It had been three days since the events with his friends had taken place, and even with the kidnapping being national news, no one had found them yet. The day was sunny, but a cool wind had seemed to blow into town with the coming .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946733/ Sept. ?, 2015Rick slowly came to in a dark room. There was a little bit of light coming from somewhere, but he couldn’t tell from where. He blinked a couple of times, trying to get his eyes accustomed to the dark. The events he had just been through slowly came back to him as if from a dream. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946732/ March 12th, 1986Rick’s memories were starting to really worry him now. Before, when his memories would come back, it was only alluding that something was going to happen. Now he remembered that something did happen. An officer had died, and he and Cadi had blacked out. Somehow, he knew that th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946730/ Sept. 20th, 2015West stormed up the steps to his friends’ house and didn’t even bother knocking. Instead, he barged in to find Harry and Emille sitting at a desk taking some notes. “West?” Harry asked in surprise. “Welcome to our home…” Emille said, soundin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946703/ Sept. 20th, 2015One second, West was talking to his student Rick Wille. And then the next second, the seventeen year old was gone. He barely had time to register this, when he realized there was a sticky note attached to his arm. After reading it, he immediately knew Harry and Emille were probably b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946698/ Sept. 18th, 2015Rick stared at the ceiling, feeling a bit hollow inside. This was all unreal. He kept thinking that Cadi was going to suddenly burst into his room, showing him some new thing she discovered, or trying to tease him or something. But the exhaustion from the lack of sleep that he had ha.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946695/ Sept. 17th, 2015“For the record, I think this is a horrible idea.” Harry said grimly as he and his girlfriend loaded up their car with a few supplies. “Well I don’t know what else to do. It’s not like her parents would just let us run some tests.” Emille said rath.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946693/ Sept. 13th, 2015“Cadi, it was an accident. You didn’t mean to hurt him. Besides, he was trying to hurt you.”Cadi sat in the passenger’s seat silently as Rick drove them home from the park. After Danny’s arm had broken, his mom just so happened to show up a few minutes l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946690/ March 12th, ????The first thing that Rick was aware of, was the fact that he was in a lot of pain.The world came back to him slowly, and he thought he heard someone weeping. His eyes fluttered open, only to be blinded by a bright light. The only thing he could see was white. And then he remembered w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946689/ Sept. 12th, 2015West and Harry watched as Emille paced the room. For the past ten days, she had actually collected quite a bit of viable information. On Monday, she had waited for the little boy to leave his house, and sure enough, he met up with the little girl. She couldn’t get close enough .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946687/ Sept. 1, 2015Things were finally starting to go somewhere with Jessica. The two of them were walking through the park in the middle of a nice conversation, when suddenly, time stopped. Rick wanted to swear. He had specifically told Cadi not to do anything!For a moment, he stood there impatiently tap.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946685/ Sept. 1st, 2015Cadi was super excited. Her best friend was turning nine today!!Time for a birthday party!!Jubilantly, she jumped out of bed and started to look through her clothes to decide what to wear. In the middle of this, someone pounded on her door. She ran over and opened to find her older br.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946684/ March 12th, 1956Rick was remembering a lot more now. He had pretty much been able to piece together most of his life up to the point where Cadi had gained her powers. Mary was sitting on his bed silently as he wandered around his room as things came back to him. “So… that bullet….. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946682/ August 31st, 2015“That was a baaad idea Rick.”“Well it would’ve been fine if you hadn’t broken that machine-I told you not to touch anything!”Cadi folded her arms and pouted as she sat on her bed. Rick was standing in her room with his hands on his hips, a stern l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946681/ August 31st, 201512:05 amCadi felt wide awake. She and Rick were successfully able to get a full night’s sleep while time was paused, and now they were ready to spy on the mad scientists.Or… the discredited scientists. “Ok. Are you ready Cadi?” her older brother asked as she.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946680/ March 12th, 1936“Rick? Did you remember anything else?” Rick opened his eyes. Here he was-somehow in the 1930’s, but really in a time coma, with a woman whose name wasn’t Mary, with two people he now remembered as scientists trying to kill him. “I-I’m slowly tryin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946679/ August 30th, 2015“Juno!! Juno Juno!!” Cadi exclaimed, rushing up next to her friend on her bike. Her friend waved as she skidded to a stop, and then he jumped on the pegs on the back of her bike so he could hitch a ride. “Did you ever figure out what happened yesterday?” he a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946676/ August 29th, 2015Cadi could not believe it. Time had stopped. How was she supposed to get it unstopped?! At this thought, the eight year old really started to freak out. She was going to be stuck like this forever!!!! She was about to start crying, when suddenly, the world came back in a whoosh of n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946675/ March 12th, 1926 “But-you-I-that-what’s going on?!?!” Rick exclaimed in a panic, his head going about every which way, taking in his new surroundings. He ducked and covered his face as a bullet flew past and hit the windshield in front of him. “And who’s shooting at us?.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946448/ August 28th, 2015The ball soared through the sky, the rubber red standing out against the brilliant blue. To the children, it looked like it must have been hundreds of feet in the air, when in reality, it only barely went over their heads. “Run Cadi! RUN!!” the children screamed. The eig.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946447/ He was trapped at the bottom of an hourglass, the sands falling down on him. He was going to die in here! He looked around desperately for a way out, when he saw a little girl with short black hair with her nose pressed up against the glass. He forced his way through the rising sands and then pounde.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946445/ Rick is in a time coma, and he's not entirely sure what that means. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1946429/ “Where am I? What’s going on?” the older woman said in a panic, looking around the room. The woman at the desk whacked a young man, who was distracted by his headphones and bobbing his head to music, twirling around in his chair. He jumped and quickly took them off and brought his .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945855/ “Lily! Where have you been?!?” The little girl looked around in shock at the chaos around her. It seemed that half of them were running one way, and half of them were running the other way-deep down into the tunnels.“What’s going on?” she asked. “You need to go.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945854/ The four of them were standing in the realm of Guardians.Alone. The walls were crumbling, the majestic pillars in ruin. The grandiose chandelier lay in shattered broken pieces on the floor. The breathtaking silence was eerie-almost like the silence of a tomb. “This isn’t good…&rd.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945853/ Lily and Arno looked around. They were standing on an empty street in front of a little house in the middle of the country. The wind blew through the green fields and trees, and there was not a cloud in the brilliant blue sky. They looked towards the little house.“Do you think that’s whe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945852/ “So what’s the plan now?” Arno asked as the three of them peered around the corner, ducking back as a line of reapers marched down the hall. They snuck into an empty room and crouched down. “We need to get into the Timekeepers realm. Steal a time orb like Helen did in the fir.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945851/ When she opened her eyes, she was in the waiting room, kids running around and screaming. “They’re dropping like flies! So many of them! What’s happening down there??” A middle aged black woman in a white dress asked. “Appears to be a school shooting…” an o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945687/ Lily poked at her cereal, her appetite gone. “Honey-you have to eat something. Please.” The little girl pushed the bowl away from her. “I’m not hungry.” Her mother sighed and took it off to the sink while her daughter aimlessly ran her finger across the table. She could.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945686/ “I’ve never seen anything quite like it. It was power beyond anything I’ve seen.”Lily could hear Arno and Helen talking as she jumped around with Edgar over the seating in the Guardians realm. “Yes. The person entitled as Death holds a lot of power.”“That&rs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945683/ For once, Lily was glad that she didn’t have to go. These dark entities were truly frightening, and she never wanted to see one again-though she knew that was probably very unlikely. Death and his team of loyal reapers had gone off with Sgt. Downey and a team of Guardians to go help the Dreaml.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945661/ “So… what happens to the string of someone turns into a dark entity?” The question had been burning within the five year old as they made their way back towards the door, but had only just been brave enough to ask it. Eva and the three Fates stopped, obvious tension in the air. Fi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945656/ The smoke from the glass portal dissipated and Lily and Arno were standing in a grand gold room with embroidered turquoise drapes. Standing in front of them was a woman in an elegant silvery dress and jewelry smiling at them. Her blonde hair was almost white.“Hello Arno and Lily. We’ve b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945655/ Lily had a sudden mix of emotions rush through her as she and the boy stared at each other. This was the person who had taken her away from her mommy and daddy and forced her into the land of the Inbetween. He was also the reason why she was Death’s Apprentice in the first place and the reason.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/alienaritist7812/1945654/