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The 1950's in Buffalo, N.Y.

“ A Piece of the Banner” Chapter II The 1950’s in Buffalo Within the bounds of our ethnic communities in Buffalo lay the further distinctions of...
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What Thought Did

What Thought Did My heartbreak thought that to smoke crack would take away the pain. ‘ Just one more little rock.’ My mother thought that to drink...
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Adrift

Edited repost. Nearly five doodle

Spinning

This poem merges the endless rotation of our planet with one or two of the 'spins' upon which some depend.

Yanker and Me - A Dog's Tale

Just call me dog. It’s what I am. My man puts me on a leash, and I don’t like it. People call him James. I call him Yanker. Idiot with a leash. I’d...
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Road Rash II

Twenty-six years ago, I bought what quickly became one of my favorite Sega Genesis games. Road Rash II. It is a motorcycle racing game. You race...
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Tentacled Lagoon Worm

Photo of Avon Estuary from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avon_estuary_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1509944.jpg
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A Glass Winter 8

Whatever has become of her, he thought. Reading her letters didn’t shed much light, the same deathly romantic, self-satisfying musings as when they were together.

Sam Sawyer Chapter Sixteen

Sam Sawyer Chapter Sixteen Odd how the sudden inexplicable absence of something can be just as world changing as a sudden appearance of something...

This Tide of Ocean

slams forty slaps against a pebbly shore creating a whisker of fish nets sea weed and pieces of driftwood and crustaceans begin to maneuver over...

Love

What is love to someone who doesn't want it? Can love bridge the distance between a soul willing to give And a soul that doesn't wish to take it? Why...

Shauna Woo 3

You see why I wanted to leave home so badly. All this attention that I was getting was making me sick. I wanted to go somewhere where no one knew me...
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A Suspicious Demise

The sign on the wrought iron fence read: Tombstones for sale. All items must go. You buy it, you keep it. Don’t bring it back. “Howdy, friend,” the...
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Echoes Of Town

Dear diary...my trip to town on Monday 29 th July 2019. Where would we be without our dear clouds and trees? I have withered in one brief hour of...
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Pagliaccio

Permission for the image is granted under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 Attribution: Rick Dikeman at the English Wikipedia

Letter to Kathleen after my Dad died - 1976

(I have been going through my letters to my sister, which her daughter brought to me a few weeks ago. Most of them are very ordinary and boring, but...

Insignia Part 1: Careful What You Wish For (revised)

Hundreds of men stood before me, but I didn't cower. Behind them sat a foggy field ravaged by battle and stained with blood. The ruins of a castle...

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