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Nick Names
(Chapter 4 of the formerly-known-as 'Crazy Diamond') Before we arrived, the college sent us a list of books to read in the summer, including two...
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You Were Made for Me (2/2)
When the rich can have young people designed, grown and conditioned as their perfect companions
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You Were Made for Me (1/2)
When the rich can have young people designed, grown and conditioned as their perfect companions
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Hangin' Around (2)
Previous Chapter 2. The Not So Great Beyond It took the better part of the afternoon for Adam to come around to a point where he could stop asking...
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The Bird Feeder
A story about Covid, lockdown, and nature. (300 word flash fiction, primarily for younger readers.)
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Crossing Over
Consummation of a first-love relation.
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Personal Communion From The Sides Of The Virus Ridden World
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On the other side of the world Kimono communicates with friends and admirers in other parts of the world, while the virus ravages the world and makes it too dangerous to meet in person.
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Lunacy
A poem about 18 lines long. Now you know. Image source tumbler. No known copyright issues.
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Out On The Streets
. Out On The Streets Paul McCann Out on the streets where days turn to weeks and months to years as time disappears ,living with those without food...
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Odyssey of a Prodigal Stepson Part 10
RECA P : 12 year old Jamie Radcliffe is being held against his will by Pedro and Delilah in a house in an undisclosed location. During an...
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Gideon Gunther
She kept about a half-block distance between them as she followed him. Easy enough on the busy after-school streets, when there were plenty of people...
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"At Least I Didn't Whistle" [Mr Martinez Part Twenty Six]
Short and bitter (like me)... Image author's own terrible photography.
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twister
twister my mirror tells no lies I’m middle-aged, paunchy, balding, no big deal my Christmas dinner, chicken stew (with sprouts), is defrosting in the...
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Uncanny Tales – (32) Funereal Finery
Funerals have had an unduly erotic effect upon me since the morning of my grandfather’s funeral in 1963 when I was 13 years old.
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JOYFUL DAYS
Gone is that joyful day When we stood before God
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IF YOU GIVE A MAN A DUCK
If you give a man a duck
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gather
Pooled, this mild September day from waves of work (or guilt when not) once each year picking blackberries from prickly cataracts of free sweetness...
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A path in the moonlight
“I need a raincoat for tomorrow” – Marilyn Manson
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