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Do You?

Do you feel everything or nothing at all? Do you feel broken or completely whole? Do you just hurt to love or love to hurt?
Cherry

Surface Tension - Chapter 27

Chapter 27 The ground's hard. The snow's melting, seeping into my trousers. Two hands reach under my armpits and swing me up. For a moment I'm...
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Novel intro - motorcycle crash in India

Calcutta, Bengal Mo opened the throttle and aimed the bike dead ahead. He spat an insect into the dust and pulled the old Enfield straight, right...

Ode Poem

Oh Tay, As I look at you I dream of happiness. I dream of you opening the car door every time. I dream of you taking me on nice dates. My dream of us...
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Keep in touch

After a while, you get used to the sound of the shelling. So it’s hard to imagine a world without it. I can usually tell ours from theirs – theirs...

Haiku

Music is the best therapy Music has its ways of clearing thoughts I love music that's soothing Writing is the best therapy Writing has its ways to...
Cherry

Paraphernalia

I got addicted while trying to medicate you sedate you ease out the strange marzipan of our days with my rolling pin joints

Terrifying Visions

Visions in my head. I clearly don't percieve what I'm seeking. These visions that I'm seeking are terrifying. I can't believe what I'm seeking. Is...
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Storms

*** When we were kids we watched in awe. ***

And a panda too

Riding on a big, red bus there was only two of us; me, a little boy of three and a panda too. Riding on a big red bus there was only three of us a...
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Generous Gemmalina

Once there was a poor girl called Gemmalina who lived with her old sick Grandmother and her little brother and sister in a run down cottage and, one...

An Autumn Kiss

An Autumn Kiss by Paul McCann It was Autumn and the cave was getting darker and shadows were a marker of the time I was in and the days were getting...

reflections on a golden Eye

I was young, I was innocent. i was living in narbeth, pennsylvania. the year was 1985 or circa. times were different back then. i was a girl child,...

Shall I compare thee

To attempt an interpretation is an impossibility. When I say "dog," I may be referring to a dog with one leg. Of course it has three crippled legs,...
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The Down and Out King - 3

EMILY G o, wretch, and gaze on yonder hill, Which thy rich friends have built, (The prison homes of poverty,) And bless them, if thou wilt. We...

The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Fourteen A Cambridge Lamentation

Chapter Fourteen A Cambridge Lamentation Introduction A Cambridge Lamentation centres on my brief stay at Coverton College, a teacher training...
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The Door

The beginning to a longer piece I've been working on. Would appreciate any feedback. Let me know if you're interested in seeing the rest.

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