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I have 35 stories published in 8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 17526 times and 3 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

Murder Mountain

By prism on Tue, 28 Sep 2004

Your birth was a rabid affair, Waxy petrifaction. A panicked scattering Of tectonics and slow burning screams Unfurled the miracle to an unpeopled...
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Certificate PG

Imitation of Akhmatova

By prism on Tue, 28 Sep 2004

Like a Lenten lament Optina Pustyn's bells Intone your name. Along the boards Of a dacha porch Soft drum of the Easter rain. All the Westerners Have...
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Certificate U

Legend

By prism on Tue, 28 Sep 2004

For three hundred years The children of Lir lived as swans Every day a beat of weeping wings. They had seen the clamour of dreams, Our dreams; some...
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Certificate U

Rainbow?s End

By prism on Tue, 28 Sep 2004

Between tea and an early night The TV relayed your plight. Part pulled the rug From beneath my complacency. And blind to the desert of your lives The...
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Certificate U

Of Birds and Men

By prism on Tue, 28 Sep 2004

I am more than the albatross. From Marianas to Everest I carry the light of Jupiter On burnished wings. My soul sings of the day I bade farewell to...
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Certificate U

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