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The Winter Festival Problem
One morning, I was woken at just after 6.30 by a hammering on my back door. ‘Who can that be?’ I wondered, before realising that, of course, it must...
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Café Boris - The Winter Festival
It was a quiet winter’s morning in Café Boris. The only customers were tourists, all of whom Boris was ignoring. They sat there in the cold of an...
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Zuzu's Petels
Once a romantic he loved the air scent of sweet pea the drama of youth read visionary books but became blinded truth and fiction merged him began...
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No Child Should Be Poor
1st Verse: If you really love children then how can you believe only some should be happy while other kids should grieve? That some kids should have...
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The Poser
The other night my wife asked me how I liked the movie we just watched. “Bloody brilliant!” I said “Really?” she said. “How much longer do I have to...
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The Student's March
This is a sort of response to a couple of pieces, including "The Student" by Ted Kooser, "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke, and a few others. It’...
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Lost in the Crowd (I.P.)
It was Paddington Station...
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Silhouettes in the Moonlight
Grand Papa and Grand Mama drew closer to both grandchildren in a sleigh led by a pair of determined nostril-steaming creatures. Their return journey...
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A Recipe of Love
Today is precious, and very difficult without our little sister, Susan. She is not gone from our lives; simply awaits us, and one day we will be...
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When Feathers Collide
Bundles of feathery-blackbirds throw fantasy into a frenzy stubbornness driving them to feeders in a staccato of determination nibbling the only...
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Ionocraft Ideas -
Electrohydrodynamic Thrust Craft/ Ionocraft (Ionic lifter) Ideas/ Some realistic and some science fiction (Most of these may not work but hopefully...
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A Year to Remember
An acrostic poem.
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The Wall
The room glowed. It was best seen this way, she decided; briefly and from the light of a cigarette. She drew harder, watching as the tip flared...
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The Phone Call
I remember the phone call so clearly. For over two weeks my gut kept telling me something was wrong, but I ignored it. I mean who really loses two...
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The Final Blow
My Moment of Strength Domestic violence was one of the most amazing experiences in my life that I have been through. At the naïve age of 20 in March...
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Our Meeting
May of 2007 I was single again and living in Laurel Apartments. I had just gotten done with a dramatic relationship of cheating, drugs, tequila,...
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Black Swan 3
Gregory Nagy's understanding of Homer's Iliad presents an elegant solution to the problems that Postmodernism and Poststructuralism is presenting in...
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Black Swan 2
It seems rather indifferent of me to think of this film as an expression of social games, but that's exactly what it is. First, how does White Swan...
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And I Hope to Forget
It's long, I know. But I wanted my first post to be read in its entirety, the way it was originally written. I'm open to any and all suggestions...
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Zombie Wedding Night - Flash Fiction
I closed the bedroom door, and swayed gently on my feet. "Wedding night. Hell," I said. "I remember one of those, from when I was alive." I smiled,...
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