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Vampyre's Kiss

Karen actually felt good basking in the late summer sun. Around the bench on which she sat, the stately grounds of the private hospice were dotted with other patients and their attendant nurses.
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2084

“He loved Big Brother.” --George Orwell; 1984. …sometimes: If I haven’t Turned On The Television set

She Used To Know All The Things

She used to know all the things there are to know, I swear. And questions aired, or dared, to ask the answer she had there.

Mama Didn't Raise No Fool

Dress to impress was the first rule I guess. Then next was safe-sex and that life is complex. The third, I preferred, 'don't be part of the herd'.
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Simple Hearts

Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times literary

Sunday Dinner (With Grandmother)

These formal situations. We sit like disapproval, Our backs straight as hard chairs. Hands, an unnecessary indulgence, Lie defeated and limp in laps Like the vegetables set out

IT WAS JUST A DREAM

A strange dream I had last night.

A Start at the End

It’s an alarm in the morning. It’s the hole in my shoe, It’s the taste in my mouth. It’s never saying never, It’s twenty-eight of a hundred, It’s a piano.

THE HALLUCINATION VERSION 2

I just had a night full of dreams and visions: often what distinctly seemed like voices talking to me In another sequence, I was rushed through a spectacular neon kaleidoscope
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A Snore Too Far

Have you ever been kept awake by someone who snores? If so I am sure you will appreciate where Anatole is coming from in this creepy story I have entitled "A Snore Too Far"

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