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The Museum

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Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.

Loveless Lover

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Love me like a crutch Love me when I'm strong

Session

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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.

Quittin' Ain't Easy

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Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…

And so, like a kind of molting

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So for now, let the snow fall, but let it fall gently, each flake as a soft piano note

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

Downtown Milwaukee

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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …

Open Wounds

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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

A Bead Was Lost

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Still Dancing b/w Smokey Conversation

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an engine stalls out in the parking lot the driver tears her skirt coming through the door

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

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Ben was not a happy musician.

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Veined and Green

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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

Snarket

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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

Brothers

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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…

The Ice Scraper Symphony

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Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!

Mauthausen

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I was feeling a bit introspective. I was busy in my own mind assembling the history of the place and getting ready for the visit. I was naturally not someone who would cluster up with a bunch of people I had just met and had arrived to participate in this

Santa

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Santa’s ruddy snoze/

Highway 17 South

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did I read that right?

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

Before I Die

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...to know they are not alone

Assiduity Twenty

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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .

Blue Baby

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they taught art

The Lycanthrope Fun-Time Activity Book

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an elongating boy with butter-yellow flecks in his eyes, and skin patched like a tabby.

Apex

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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.

The Birthday Jump

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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…

Like Picasso

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lying back on inviolable sheets, your breasts spread apart like a child’s open hands you’d look up at me and smile

Twenty-two

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The year begins well here with much needed rain and tee-shirt temperatures.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.

Between Love and Hate

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“There is a fine line between love and hatred.” This was what his closest friend, Bob Sanders, had said to him many years ago. And it had finally and irrevocably proven to be so.