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I have 37 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 42542 times and 30 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

Birds, Breaks

For Ebbie

Valentines

An old one.

Kite Flying

Battering body into sky, The frame flexes but does not break, And the tail whips the airflow, So wild up there! And down here: just a pair of strings...

In Your Own Words

Poetry is in your blood; the vinyl floor is sticky with it, An alphabet of pills stuffed into your stomach: Aspirin, Bedranol, Citalopram. I stumble...
Cherry

Other People's Houses

In one of the bright, lit up houses on my street Is a woman who doesn't spend her time wishing for what she doesn't have. Who slides her bare feet...

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