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Standing Forms

The city is a collage of standing forms, abstract from a distance up close, each shape has purpose, narrative, name I turn from the window to face...
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Heaven's Reward (Islamic State Comes To Heaven) : Ch.3 : Establishing The Caliphate In Heaven
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Islamic State fighters have found themselves in heaven (Jannah) after heavy street fighting. To their surprise they find that there are many impure undesirables in heaven and they decide they must try to reestablish their Caliphate in heaven.
A Sorry Life
Once was the promise of gold up the river With the promise of gold I headed up the river But I had been sold up the river Oh, it's a sorry life...
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Art
How old. How long ago. The numbers were shorter and most people's in the book then, and in the abyss of afternoons you swam through at that age,...
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Retiro
I'm sitting in Retiro where the space permits me to think awhile Where the breeze scatters dreams and birds fuss amongst my cares Where the sun...
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FIRE AND WINGS

you hear some music in your mind you want to give it breath if there's no notes on paper it will die a lonely death . a tune relies on instruments...
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Hospital
Welcome to the white-walled curing and killing grounds of American capitalism: opulent room service, urinal fumes, and the fair but fractaled forms...
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Never Land
This yarn is a fabric woven of several earlier warped works, lightly laced together with fur-ther braided tales of human frailty. The looms were loosed, purling frantically this febrile fable Some pearls may be found wanting - unwanted or unwonted - piled or hang ing loose, dangling free within a fuzzy flight of fancy The threads of this untethered tissue may be fastened, or be forgotten, or else be stranded by the readers and left unravelling in the knotted corners of their minds 'twill be perchance that some may laugh or lool in loopy stitches, else be torn or ripped apart, while others may just simply say ‘ 'tis made of hole cloth’, ‘sew what’ or ‘cant seam to get the needle point’ yes, a proper disentanglement may take you for a spin on twisted twines of any strings you feel might need attaching or detaching picking knits, some may think that such strange things ‘have Never happened in our Land’ such quaint things ‘could Never happen in our Land’’ such murky things ‘will Never happen in our Land’’ and this may all be true , if credence be dis-carded such is that gooey gossamer that vails the human mind and thus was born the teasing title of this fabricated Fantasy: NEVER LAND
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The Confession
(Scene - A living room in an apartment; evening. Max, an old M.I.5 agent sits in a chair centre stage, facing the audience. Enter Anatolia, a female...
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The Boxing Match From A Boxer's Perspective
An excerpt from my blog "Comments From the Blue Corner". I don't normally do this, but I thought this section was particularly interesting and thought-provoking.
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Addict
Addiction. We are all addicted to something: television, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, love. I'm addicted. Stopping cold turkey-Does it work? Madness...
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The Pizza Dilemma
Vinnie drove a black Cadillac which was meant to inspire fear in the hearts of whoever saw its bright headlamps rolling down the street. It was one...
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The Short and Sweet of Craven and Betty - One

"How many times do I have to tell ya, Betty? Ain't ain't a word." "Sorry, Mr. Danger. Let me repeat myself at the risk of soundin' de ja viewic." "De...
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Words Again
There are words in my head again today.
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Wizard
Only the soft chaff, drifting slowly, across the wheatfield..
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The Long Gallery, Chapter Ten & Eleven
Chapter Ten Jeffries bore the look of a disgruntled man; pushing his diary away as though it carried some infectious disease, he said, ‘So gentlemen...
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No Longer Alone
Ah Me !Ah My! Grandpa yearns for days gone by...now he's pushing seventy two there's much we have to help him do, Dad said that it would be just, if...
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The Two Bucks and the Doe
A small tragedy I wrote in a fable-like genre.
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