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Fiction You Can Cling To
Welcome to Sweet Insanity, a sanctuary of strange creations from the mind of writer and artist Jayce Ran. Within these pages dwell unsettling tales, enigmatic artworks, and personal reflections; carefully gathered yet threaded with mystery. Whether you’re seeking eldritch visions, eerie stories, or glimpses into a shadowed imagination, you’ll find your curiosity rewarded. Step gently into these archives, for madness whispers from every corner.
Enjoy your wanderings through Sweet Insanity.
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- Lessons in the Living RoomI don’t chase the loudest roomsI follow where the voices breatheWhere laughter leans toward meaningAnd quiet knows when to speak I sit where sparks pass hand to handNot just to warm the nightBut to learn the shape of fireFrom another kind of light Every word is a doorwayEvery pause a… Read more: Lessons in the Living Room
- After ApplauseFortune wears a thousand facesChanges every time you blinkShe dances through the open doorwaysNever stays long enough to thinkShe likes a hand upon her shoulderLikes a whisper in her earBut she won’t promise you tomorrowShe only loves you while you’re here You can chase her down the avenueYou can beg… Read more: After Applause
- Inherited WeatherI was poured into a countryLike rain into old stone groundLearning the taste of the soilLearning what settles downThey said this is how we move hereThis is the shape of the streamSo I swallowed the weather quietlyAnd carried it inside of me Some skies lean gentle on facesSome burn without… Read more: Inherited Weather
- Stillness Has RankI folded the thunder into my coatLeft the lightning at the doorSome crowns are made of borrowed noiseThey shake but they’re hollow at the core I watched desire light a matchJust to feel the heat appearBut fire that begs for attentionNever lasts the year Every impulse wants a throneEvery spark… Read more: Stillness Has Rank
- Do Not Outshine the SunI learned it watching towers of glassBow their heads like they don’t reflect backEvery victory hums in the airLike it wants to be rememberedLike it wants to be paid for later Win too loud, the room goes stillClimb too fast, the ladder chills Every triumph leaves a shadowEvery crown remembers… Read more: Do Not Outshine the Sun
- Geometry of BecomingI wasn’t born complete or cleanI came in crooked, split at the seamsEvery day a quieter fixEvery scar a lesson stitched inThe mirror never told me “done”Just showed the work that wasn’t run I learned the weight of waiting longThe cost of being almost strong This is the height, this… Read more: Geometry of Becoming
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