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Your Smell

By Poohsticks on Wed, 18 Mar 2009

When I wake you are gone, but I already knew this would be the case. You are always gone when I wake, always, and each and every time I see the place you should be but are not

Love

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The Undoing

By macserp on Tue, 17 Mar 2009

Ben seemed ok but the EMT insisted on calling a second ambulance just to make sure. You don’t take chances with head trauma, he obliged, especially with an infant.

Other Fiction

Story

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The Old Days

By threeleafshamrock on Tue, 17 Mar 2009

Bikes that had engines concealed in our lips, Or cards held to the spokes with 'Cellotape' strips.

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Southwold Revisited (The Sound of the Sea)

By Silver Spun Sand on Tue, 17 Mar 2009

A walk on the pier in the pouring rain, not her best idea.

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A Window on Madness (part three)

By leo vine-knight on Mon, 16 Mar 2009

Steve returns to the psychiatric unit after his night out(and wishes he hadn't). The mysterious character 'Llewelyn' is introduced.

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Story

Certificate 15

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The Son of All Fears

By Ewan on Mon, 16 Mar 2009

Quite odd, really...

Horror

An Age Of Difference

By Dynamaso on Mon, 16 Mar 2009

She is beauty made ugly by place and circumstance

Miscellaneous

Certificate 18

Love, Dies Not!

By threeleafshamrock on Sun, 15 Mar 2009

Only life ends; love is forever!

Love

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Vanessa

By gingeresque on Sat, 14 Mar 2009

My blue dress is still hanging in the wardrobe. And today, as I turned the corner onto Maryoteya Road, I thought of you.

Story

Certificate 12

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I lost You.

By Ween on Sat, 14 Mar 2009

I lost you... Among the brick and stone the cotton and the soul, You slid beneathe the cracks of patterned tile, You flew between the dust and air. Someone said they saw you,

Spiritual

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High on Snow (Inspiration Point)

By jennifer on Fri, 13 Mar 2009

High on Snow (IP) (13th March, 2009, 20.49pm) Edgeless precipice; you look down, precarious, high on snow. I watch you. Naïve, I stumble in the light, troughed in some unbefitting,

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Soliloquy in Yellow

By dilletante on Fri, 13 Mar 2009

you lick the smoke from your cigarette and grin; your musings are an abstract to me.

Love

Weary - An Imperfect Pantoum

By Dynamaso on Fri, 13 Mar 2009

I've been reading about different forms in poetry and remembered a Pantoum I'd written some time ago. I thought I'd post it here to see what others thought of the form.

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