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Either Side of the Glass

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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…

Leda, After the Swan

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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello

My Daughter Belongs In a Mental Home

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Art Is Resilient

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Our revolutionaries Have evolved into gamekeepers

Sleeplessness

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The retina was burning, the liquid had dried up, and the veins bursting. My eyes bled. But I kept them open. The sound was like nails on glass, screeching endlessly. Coming close to me louder, harder, faster.

Candle Smoke Wishes

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“The minute I stopped wondering about the meaning of life is when I finally started enjoying life.”

Kwaazy Wabbit

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destroy the day rip up the track jump in the water eat nothing but bugs

Obtaining Sophia

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My accordion's name is Sophia and she is from Italy. She was born in fairytale fashion, the way my life in Madrid can sometimes be. A great and nurturing friend gathered money from many friends in our village, to buy me an accordion for my birthday. It was…

ALL THOSE YEARS

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Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…

Shenanigans 4: mutual and selective congratulation

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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."

Citronella Socks

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a cat named email..

getting there

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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?

Sunday Storms

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Poems reflect their poets. / Mine: ugly but loved. / It is just as well.

November

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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber hugging a pillow you think is someone else.

He is dying

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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new

My Own Gun

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“What's a slut?”

Milky Way of Impossibility

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Can we meet in the desert, I will stand with a cactus flower clenched between my teeth and balance en pointe. I will tame snakes and find your serpent tongue with my eyes closed. I will usher in the clouds, when it grows hot, and, should you becom

The Room of Doors

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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked. She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.

A Shower of Rain

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You have at least an intermittent belief.

Hasn't Got A Prayer

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This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.

The Day I Discovered, Followed The Night I Realised

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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much

architecture

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you look like the insides of my cheeks chewed.

The Dolly Boys

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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.

Ode to an Afro (or Going Natural in a Corporate World)

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In praise of the colorful flock with crowns of teased cotton candy rising high above Modular walls, stalled operating systems staling coffee and pale corner offices

No Cheese

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My supper consisted of no cheese My marriage consisted of no violin

The Forgotten Children...

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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.

Joint Custody – The Second Coming

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A little boy sits at the table. He hears a knock at the door.“Mo-om!” the boy calls out. “Door!”His mother comes from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her clothing.“Jesus!” she says. “Would it kill you to answer the…

Yogurt

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Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it.

Salt and Light

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As clever as clean bed sheets

The New Lycanthropy

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Who remains after the aching night has departed into dawn and left us to week-old sleep