MistakenMagic
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I have 167 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 997321 times
and 109 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 3,073 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
My stories
Ithaca
I sit in the trees that are made from amber glass, making notes, and think of another tree growing in Jerusalem for those who invented God.
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Games People Play
I'm looking down through the blue gloom to a heart-shaped sea anemone that blooms purple like a familiar bruise.
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Notes on a Long-Haul Flight
Bucharest is a spider's web heavy with dew. It mirrors the sky; a black expanse littered with glass, the blight mark of a fallen chandelier. A cracked wind-shield.
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My Family and Other Animals
Most mornings I wake at dawn. My sister snores opposite me in the double bed she claimed. "But I sleep diagonally!" "That's not a disability." There's no reasoning with some people.
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On Leaving
I am not as sentimental as I used to be. Like waiting for a delayed train, I teeter on the edge of the week, wondering if the freight load of feeling will ever arrive.
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