Caitlin Charlton

Joined August 2024

140 stories

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Noir Writer & Close Reader. Spotting the elements of Eloquence.

Survivor. Reclaiming my own territory.

Let us read each other and leave the page free. 🖋️🔥👠

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Imposter in a gingerbread house . Top Story - November 2025.
I'm a little more than just trapped inside this gingerbread house, made of flour, butter, molasses, and aromatic spices. While I could eat my way through and out, I remain. Sitting on gumdrops, showering myself with M&Ms, whipped by licorice ropes. I am an imposter. I belong on the naughty list.
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Poets
Deaf in a loud world . Runner-Up in Maps of the Self Challenge.
The world is an out-of-tune instrument, a lute with quite a few broken strings. In a big city with nowhere for the noise to go, it hits me the way a spotlight hits a stage.
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Humans
She still lives in me . Content Warning.
Though she be far in heart, yet I still care. And place my reach behind an iron bar. Like north and south where dust and clouds don’t share.
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Horror
To Be Your Family
And if I may be thin like paper leaves That place awaits me in the tree sleeves -🪾🌳🍁🍂 Though birds go high so I will start to fly I won’t be low in mind under the sky --🪾🌳🍁🍂 Say you love me like the birds of the tree Though you say blood is all you see --🪾🌳🍁🍂 My arms are wide open to you so be For I will wait to be your family
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Poets
Jealous Sister . Content Warning.
My mother belongs to you, she never belonged to me Years beyond the womb you will be set free
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Poets
Bred By a Hand Not Raised. Top Story - November 2025.
I was born with a low IQ, I am a page whose text was worn through. My mind's a palimpsest, a fading script, the vital history that was skipped. I grew up hardened by sorrow's pain, bred and burdened by a hand not raised.
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Poets
Hunger, Obsession and Lust
{My lily sweet soul} hungers —for your star gaze [Humbly] splitting the tides —for your sunrise Take me higher than my body weighs ©️
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets
The Night Never Sleeps
‘Fleeting motes of dust’ ~~💀~~ Bellowed Abaddon, ‘they…’ hmph ~~💀~~ ‘They eat then they die’ ~ Caitlin Charlton ~ Sara Wilson
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets
The Cold shift
The shift consumes like a blanket Of haze, resting along the landscape Light goes dim and the shadows hold long — ©️ Days are shortened
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets
Don’t Call Me Muse . Content Warning.
You’re the reason why we are like this. 🖤 Yes we will love, but we will never give back as much as you want us to. _ You want our womb, so that we can raise your child.
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets
When The Lantern Flickers . Content Warning.
Come to the light you soldiers of pleasure ©️ Must you be lovers of gold and ledger Where will you go when the lantern flickers?
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets
🎃CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!! 🎃
I fed him many Moons ago, but his body No longer respond ~Caitlin Charlton~ Lizzy Rose Caroline Jane Delphi
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Poets