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Your color is red (Color Challenge)

You wear all black, eyes lined in Kohl. Even your hair is dyed black, so dark it swallows the light. But your color is red.

You use biting words to spite me, coloring your sarcasm with blue words.

Your green eyes the color of freshly mowed grass. As green as your secret hopes.

Your favorite lipstick a deep shade of purple. Stark against the untouched porcelain of your skin. “It’s called Purple Rain,” you say to me, smirking at my disgust.

Your cheeks are sometimes (more rarely now, true) suffused with the pinks of your sudden raptures. Even your giggles are pink.

You step boldly into the rainbow of your adolescence, shattering misconceptions with every move you make. I know you are experimenting like a child does with watercolors, trying first this shade then that. But I can only wait for you to open your eyes and realize that your color is red. The true shade of your hair, disguised beneath this rebellious, raven black. The hidden fires of your heart, clutched in the closed fist of your insecurity.

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Your color is red (Color Challenge)
someday_93
Posted 11 months ago

Oh wow. This is amazingly beautiful. Absolutely amazing. Great job!
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
THX 0477
Posted 11 months ago

Very nice. I thought the ending was particularly nice. Though, these days I think saying someone is ‘shattering misconceptions’ by being an emo goth is a bit of an overstatement.
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
Mask By The Moon
Posted 11 months ago

wooooow.
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
SKermitgorf
Posted 11 months ago

wow, one of your best ficlets.
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
BetwINeen
Posted 11 months ago

great imagery…and everything else
beatiful ficlet
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
Insert Pen Name Here
Posted 11 months ago

That’s great. I love it. though i agree with THX …some of my bestest friends are emo goths and the nicest people ever. But i really think that you describe it well.
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
Alexa ♥
Posted 11 months ago

You step boldly into the rainbow of your adolescence
Lovely.
~
I also love how you know that this girl should be in red, and when she accepts herself, she will proclaim it with the boldest of colors. Excellent.
Your color is red (Color Challenge)
artistsrunwild
Posted 11 months ago

I really adored this ficlet. I, compared to your character, am well aware that my colour is red, but I really love how you used her covering herself in different colours to show her insecurities and as alexa said, she will show her true self in red.
Loved it.