Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As the harvest moon falls, I ask in a cry why Persephone wouldn't pull me down with her to die To give me time, away from all: a personal hell where none hear my call At the end of the period I could choose to go back, But would it really be worth it when I'd still simply lack? ~Benjamin Ray, 2026 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We spent so many years running through the snow, guarding our bruises and learning how to bleed in silence. But when our hands finally met, the cold lost its teeth. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They say people "fall" in love, as if it’s an accident or a sudden drop into the unknown. With you, it felt less like falling and more like finally finding another right rhythm. Your positivity isn’t just a trait; it’s gravity. It pulled me in fast, but it didn’t leave me breathless. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 30/07/2026For I am the breath that feeds that ember, the quiet void will not pull you under. Let it burn bright, and the shadows fall entirely away. Even when the fear of ash whispers in your inner ear, the warmth we cast will hold back the dark. Keep your eyes on the brilliance, and you'll never burn alone. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026As the moon ascends, I contemplate its purported control over the tides. I believe it genuinely strives to synchronize with her. She whose name resonates like a low hum against the backboards of a ship's hull, like long-lost secrets and hushed whispers in layers of salt and foam. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 04/07/2026He gazed upon me from the periphery of the campfire as the sun began to set, his cloak smelling of damp pine and wood smoke. To any bystander, he looked like a simple statue of scars and leather, fingers idly sharpening daggers with rhythmic and lethal precision. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The weather in the eye of a storm is entirely deceptive. It mimics peace. It gives you a glimpse of a blazing sun, a quiet breath, a moment where the wind drops just long enough for your shoulders to unburden themselves. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The air of the Grove didn't move. It hummed, vibrating in sympathy with the way they moved through the tall grasses. From any other perspective, it was simply a Tuesday. To them, it was a conversation. They needed neither heavy grimoire nor dramatic incantation to command rooms. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You sit there, Your Majesty, shoulders squared as if the crown still demands a perfect posture. Studying maps of borders no scout ever trod, worrying over winter stores of a people who live only beyond a place I cannot see. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The calendar marks the days I try to hold, a milestone where your laughter should be. Two months ago, you should have drunk beer with your dad, sharing a moment that lives only in memory. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I'm consumed by a fear of losing my fucking mind, I'm desperate to understand what's wrong. I can't pinpoint the cause and am deeply anxious, unable to engage in any activities I once cherished. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I never desired their hatred, but I also question why they should love me. Despite my irreplaceable nature, I feel like a wasted space. In a world filled with hatred and hardship, I just yearn for acceptance. I seek a place where suffering doesn't exist. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2021 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The official cause of departure was listed as a myocardial infarction. The coroner sighed wearily, stamped the documents with a demeanor with warmth of windowpanes in November, and slid it to the county clerk. "Intense catastrophic failure of the left ventricle." Another sigh, from the clerk. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Revenge is never as sweet as justice, but sometimes, the sweets aren't meant to fill you up. ~ Benjamin Forrest, 2019 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 28/04/2026[soft laughter] Ben... Cut it out. You knew it all along. There is no other side. This is all there is. It's time to let it overtake. Right? Right...? ~ ???, 2016 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Sometimes, a family doesn't have skeletons in a closet. Sometimes, a family has a mass grave. Perhaps even a mass graveyard. Each Thanksgiving, someone decides it's time to begin the dig. Sometimes, excavation starts, but it won't finalize until all involved parties are gone. ~Benjamin Ray, 2024 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If it's you and me against the world, then I'm against you, since you're my whole world. I hate that. Let's stay in bed together, away from the world, make it song and dance. You say you can't call out of work, but I ask for ten more minutes, as we just cradle each other. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2025 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. But when your mind is trapped in pain, youth can feel like a prison. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2026 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Our eyes flicker gold in the depth of the dark, As we each connect via our everbright spark We leveled through trials and grind through our chapters. As we trade the silence for echoed cries and laughters. 101
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 27/03/2026And you wondered why I'd stopped falling in love? Or perhaps you simply thought I couldn't be loved. You may be right, but the same goes for you. ~ Benjamin Forrest, 2022 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 24/03/2026"Who knows? It could just be my amygdala telling me to shut the fuck up and scream, but my hypothalamus just can't be arsed to give a shit." ~ ???, 20?? 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You can't lock the fuck in when you're locked the fuck out with the keys still inside ~ Benjamin Ray, 2024 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 17/03/2026As nothing lasts forever, Everything fades, I refuse to let you do the same. Only you could be nothing in my heart, Until my heart is nothing, too. Yet all else disappears from our sight. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2025 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I'm not waiting for my life to start for real; I'm in the middle of one of the most successful, from the ground up, comeback arcs the world has ever seen. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2026 010
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The barren emptiness, the indescribable grey sky and earth, the silence save for a desolate wind that doesn’t even have the heart to howl. It just... Sighs. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I survived the summer, and I'll survive the winter. I'll survive ten of them and more for the connection to flourish. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2026 001
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I find myself staring into my own eyes more often than before, seeing the different aspects of me that have experienced all of this life. Sometimes, I look in the mirror to decipher who of me is going on the adventure that particular day. 001
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 24/02/2026That dark, beautiful, horrific color won't stop. Flashing, expanding, piercing. Black. Black. Black. Blacker. A meaningless cacophony of endless noise. Not simply an absence of light, but an appetite. A heavy velvet curtain didn't simply hang; it crushed. 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Like placing a chalkboard on a turntable Turn it. Like reading a compass inside a magnet Follow it. Like piercing the moon with a thimble Taste it. Like weaving a snowflake through a needle eye Wear it. Like pouring the ocean into a stopwatch Wait for it. Clutch your chest. Cl— ~ Benjamin Ray, 2019 010
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 15/02/2026My system is a pair-binder, intuitively designed for connection. While it takes time to power up when it wants to go "mach fustercluck," I'm allowed to love myself BECAUSE I love. The sinking of my sternum is simply love's expansion finally reaching where it needed to: inward. ~ Benjamin Ray, 2026 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I wouldn't have let you in If I didn't have a choice 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Fear of failure If failure persists, a need for death A craving for death yet terrified of it. Death and dying, afraid. Potential. All has been told of me. Hope is not all I have. But anxiety, depression. My mind wanders. ~ Benjamin Forrest, 2017 110
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 01/01/2026The people around tell me I sold my soul to the devil for pennies in my dreams. It makes too much sense when the demons lurk and loiter in my head and at the worst of times scream their bloodcurdling pejorative screams. ~ Benjamin Forrest, July 2019 000
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Whæt, for Sire Axiom was first to die, A dictatorial brain beast seeped through his eye. A four-footed mind, our downfall was wrought, A quantum catastrophe, chaos it brought. Its babe leaped inside his saintly pate, A bellowing curse sealed Axiom’s fate. 110
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Forced to be an outcast of outcasts A life of solitude was the only existence I could see Alone in my abode with thoughts of the near-fatal trauma dealt to me Perhaps you regret my exclusion now You scramble to pick up pieces You become an outcast yourself Unaccepted Yet my pain's understood 100
Working Titles, by Chosn1 @chosn1swrkngttls.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I've forever longed to hold you near To chase away all of these fears. I yearn to hear your eloquent voice A beautiful melody, that is my choice. 120