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I have 1313 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1489566 times
and 111 of my stories have been cherry picked.
9 of my 208 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 9 votes
Sean Lawlor Nelson
American; 40; divorced with 3 kids; I've lived in Sweden and Thailand; and have devoted 40 years to the literary endeavor. I've been a part of this literary community forever; and won many cherry awards from our eminent editors. Thanks to my fellow literati in this community.
My stories
the woman is my medicine
I don't know why: it doesn't matter. But it's no lie or pretense clever I love the girl, and need her here... it calms my mind and soothes my fear It's not the things she has to say
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I am the American Devil
I am the American devil: the barbarian, the war-monger, the self-serving capitalist, the spoiled libertine Dressed in comfortable clothes made in terrible sweat-shops
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taking the edge off
That's how it starts: a depressive, over-disciplined intellectual, usually not even yet a man You take the edge off of your mind (breaks from the world and its petty grind)
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save a seat in Valhalla
I carry neither sword nor gun and my calling leaves me little use for one But generation upon generation of Norsemen swim in my veins, and war-like and fatal is the slant of my brain
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On Polanski
Yes, he did the deed and such a deed as a devil might... and that only under cloak of night But no devil is Polanski and neither human, he, at least not in the way of most humanity
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