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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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- 561 reads
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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How to Excel at Make-Believing
“How much longer before we can eat? The pizza is getting cold,” I muttered, hoping she’d notice my growing irritation. She didn’t. I wasn’t surprised...
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PressureHeatwave
Intense the heat, the hurt, the pain, repeat, repeat again, again – unbearable sense of defeat. Robot-like keep going, sleep, get up, work, earn –...
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The Grief of Gaziantep.
The Grief of Gaziantep. Hotter than a Dragon’s kiss, the seas boil under saffron sun. Tiny thrumming mosquitoes zone on sweating, caramac skin,...
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Blue Tit
As the story book harvest moon wanes between postcard-green meadows... Paridae songbirds lovingly weave nestling frameworks of art, dripped with Ivy...
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Cherry St. Sours (Poetry Monthly)
Sherbet sunset fizzes into a blurry rainbow of e-numbers over the diesel scented city-scape sink into the lullaby of matt-chalk smog be my bed...
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A Perfect Match
Karen Carson lay upon her back upon the roof of her apartment block, flying on Robodone, the slave drug; the legal, non-lethal but highly addictive...
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Dearly Beloved
Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a relationship of two people who were very much, at one time, in love. The cause of...
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- 266 reads
Where Has the Day Gone?
Carrying the next load of laundry down the stairs, I happen to glance out the window. There's a man, older, pasty, wearing a baseball cap and no...
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The Power of Love
Once, an infant boy was born and when his mother took him in her arms a beam of sun burst from his heart and shone, like a golden kiss, upon her face...
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She's In Love
I've not heard her play in here for a while She'd always be at the sessions and bring a smile To the old men at the table She'd sing soft as a dove...
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The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle
People said you were no good They said you never did the things you said you would They said unequivocally you weren't good news They said you weren'...
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To Live and Die - Chapter 5 / Time to Kill (1 of 2)
Bond crept in and waited for the door to swing shut behind him. With a smile spread across his cheeks he toed the heel of his oxfords off eagerly. He...
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To Live and Die - Chapter 4 / Radio Silence (1 of 2)
‘Dead sir?’ Bond queried, taking a long drag from his cigarette. He crossed his legs and slouched somewhat in the old chair. M lent forward. M nodded...
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Well There You Are
"Well there you are. Well there you are." Can you just drive into heaven in a gas guzzling car? Can you wish upon the darkness when there isn't any...
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Morris The Mouse To The Rescue
One day, Morris a little brown mouse was in the kitchen of the house where he lived and he was sniffing around looking for some food when he came...
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WITHOUT A SINGLE SOUND
when a tree falls in the forest where no wildlife is around does it dent the earth substantially without a single sound ? . when the night falls in...
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24 Oink! Oink! Oink!
24 Oink! Oink! Oink! Two minutes later, Quin stepped back inside the Amberjack. The place was still mostly empty, except for a few local citizens;...
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