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Getting 'clean'
10 days clear 10 days living in fear of myself, I need to take care of my health, no meds, more dread, more voices in my head. More cuts, more scars...
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The Grickle
Once, in a far away country there lived an old woman who had three sons called Jack, Jacob and Joseph. And one day, their mother was working in the...
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Sleeping Beauty
He kisses Sleeping Beauty The word before the fall You’ve changed and change back And I don’t change at all ‘You’re a fucking wally,’ she said ‘Not...
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Plica
Polish Plait, Elflocks... Something wicked this way comes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait Warning, contains foreign words, even phrases: pass by if you truly fear the other...
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Comte by Candlelight 1
Victor was being a dick. Charlotte had found him rifling through the ribbon-bound letters she kept as a reminder of Hector, her deceased fiancé. Puce...
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27 Saint Andalib?
27 Saint Andalib? Around six o’clock that evening, Ted, Andalib, Xavier and Eric Mann, were again seated at a table inside the Amberjack, along with...
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26 Those Who Would Save Us Part 2
26 Those Who Would Save Us Part 2 Andalib hurried along the catwalks, in the direction of the stranded yacht, while singing. “I have decided to...
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25 Those Who Would Save Us Part 1
25 Those Who Would Save Us Part 1 The following morning, Andalib and Xavier were back at work inside the MacKenzie’s oyster and pearl farm, again...
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Muddy Me Up
Muddy Me Up Nice to be almost five with your feet in the sand dumping pails of water making it cool, covering toes in the mush. This is good this is...
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THE NIGHT BEFORE
the things we think are set in stone may change before our eyes each day on earth, we live and learn and strive to grow more wise . sometimes this...
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Wait a Little Longer
The mercury soars. Heat bounces off faded wallpaper, traps itself beneath the ceiling, fills the room from above. The scene beneath the window plays...
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The Picture Ranch 18
What? You thought I'd give up? I was looking for inspiration and something turned up...
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Passing Through
Passing Through S’cuse me I’m passing through. Past a crumbling cottage with roses overgrown. Someone’s dream now forgotten For they were passing...
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Unseen Britain - Scarborough from Smugglers Apprentice to North Sands and back
Scarborough has two beaches which are ‘spread out along either side of its headland, which is thrust out like a clenched hand into the sea with its...
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Idea: Horizontally Rotating Electric Fan
What if, rather than fan blades rotating vertically you had one large, vertical (upright) blade that rotated horizontally round and round. Surely...
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Dreams in the River
On the morning of solitude’s most sacred day, Was to spend the wake on grassy banks of rivers clean. Dazzled and seamless our mistress’ mighty flow,...
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Leggings – The Worst Curse!
“Yes, Dragon Hall, I paid for it with my writing and odd jobs. I used to teach English classes there. I had a teaching cert. Then.”
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ELECTRIC SPARKS
we linger in the distance for we're forced to bide our time the poem, though now completed still must wait to hear its rhyme . the rain falls down...
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The Real Yellow Banana
She held the doll close to her heart and made her way through all of the people at the fair. Down here, no one had a face and nothing seemed familiar...
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Good people
They say the good ones always sacrifice more. Always bow and devoted to whatever unacceptable situations that happens. Always surrender to get...
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