Bridget Couture

Joined October 2022

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An aspiring author and poet with an unquenchable love for books. Can often be found typing intensely or substituting reading for sleep.

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Erosion
In molten shadow, the tombstone's loose edge releases, lands in the rubble.
By Bridget Couture3 days ago in Poets
In the Eye of the Storm. Runner-Up in Nothing But Voices Challenge. Content Warning.
“We’re too exposed.” “Go back to bed, Connie.” “I can’t.” “Then at least try. You ought to take the time before the sun rises.”
By Bridget Coutureabout a month ago in Fiction
Recipe for Regret. Runner-Up in Instructions for a Feeling Challenge.
For best results, knead as hard as you can - on your confidence, your screen, your bucket lists. Let their pressure overwhelm you, mold into you,
By Bridget Couture2 months ago in Poets
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
A warm reflection, a silver pendant in frost, treasure, lost and found.
By Bridget Couture2 months ago in Poets
Off the map
Fog eating the ship, Captain’s head loose on the floor, and — Shhh. Let them sleep.
By Bridget Couture5 months ago in Poets
Pompous Circumstance
Twin lines of blue gliding toward the stage, polar ends of a class slowly unraveling as graduates cross the threshold into a blank beyond.
By Bridget Couture6 months ago in Poets
The Persistence
They dressed him in one of his eight pairs of pants, one of his twenty-one shirts, and two of his thirty-four socks. He was prepared by the same two individuals - his mother and his brother - and their routine took only 18 seconds longer than usual. A few breaths more than the average count.
By Bridget Couture11 months ago in Fiction
Naïveté
we built our nest from naïveté doubts, hopes, corruptive sacrifice finally the pain weighed down I fell off while you stayed,
By Bridget Couture2 years ago in Poets
the hands of history
erase the Earth’s shell and you’ve got building blocks, coloring users’ hands with power, leftovers of forgotten structures and
By Bridget Couture2 years ago in Poets
Mixed Media
I am a sculpture I do not remember carved by passing echoes what once was me continues on a bundle of scars, sensations, and time locked away
By Bridget Couture2 years ago in Poets
Snowy Serendipity
His tea was cold, the bitter remnants of bergamot painting his throat with citrus spice. He stood at his bedroom window, as he did every morning, every day. It was a comfort turned custom, even as the world refused to do the same.
By Bridget Couture2 years ago in Fiction
Catharsis of a Sculpture. Top Story - January 2024.
alabaster moulded and opened my eyes, blank spheres of frigid rock through which I was blind colorless were my limbs; I felt no rays of life
By Bridget Couture2 years ago in Poets

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Erosion

In the Eye of the Storm. Runner-Up in Nothing But Voices Challenge. Content Warning.

Recipe for Regret. Runner-Up in Instructions for a Feeling Challenge.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Off the map

Pompous Circumstance

The Persistence

Naïveté

the hands of history

Mixed Media

Snowy Serendipity

Catharsis of a Sculpture. Top Story - January 2024.

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