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The Flame Child

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Lupe drove. She didn't know where she was going, but still she drove. The Mustang whined because she did not shift gears. The street was wet from a night rain and if…

Would You Name YOUR Dog Voldemort?

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So you don't want to give your dog an ordinary name like Fido or Spot. And you love books. So, naturally, you turn to your favorite literary classics when it's time to name the new puppy. The result? This list of actual canine names inspired by literature (from…

Sunday Evening, 4:23AM

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The rhythm of my breathing is a litany of regret.

The Angel with The Broken Wing

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"She was like a perimeter guard for an advanced race of beings who looked human but were somehow para-human entities focused only temporarily within this dimension."

Giving Birth to the World

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Life's a contradiction.

The Gift

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and oh how serratedly so

Self Portrait Without Colors

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I am the ritual/ banalities of days numbered,/ numberless, and numb.

A Haiku In Spirit But Not In Form On the Fine Art of Sumo

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Two titans move opposite one another

Tons

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Drink tons of water they keep telling me...

He's All Man--And He's All Mine

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My man’s got a habit that’s kinda strange. I’ve got a feeling he’s never gonna change. Whenever I take a trip, when I git back, my underwear’s ripped.

LEAVES

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...black birds fall from trees...

Stinking oil

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When were you flash frozen?

Hearing the Usual Reports

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In its own defense against what is too concrete the mind allows a magical thought--

jewels

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it is said to make your manliness last forever

Untitled

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the colors of the night

Florida Dreams of Peru

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Kiln dried mummies, landscape of once were alpacas. / Now all the wool is farmed in Alva

Who Was This Guy

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Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…

7th Avenue Local

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The harsh lights of the 7th Ave. Local revealed dark circles that had remained hidden during Vivian’s performance.

Butterfly Morning

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We woke up and we were whirlpools of spilt turquoise oil / with wings for flying

I Thought

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I thought we ended things a long time ago

Dissecting

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skin is soft and too easily sliced away

no caps

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A Good Provider

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She looked over from the passenger seat at her husband and smiled. It had been twenty years. She hadn't expected him to remember. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, placed her hand on his thigh.“We'll be home soon enough,” he said. He was not…

Rock the Rhombi

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This is the place you need a third hand

Edward Ogle the Second

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doomsday kittens

It is I, Hamlet, King of the Crabs

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Ronnie comes home carrying two sacks of groceries, one including a four-pack of Virgil's root beer. This is heavy stuff. It amazes me she is able to carry these items up our steep hill, nearly a mile in distance. I watch the news on our French cable station while she…

Of the FTC and the Human Condition

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Humanity comes without a choice

Shade to Shade

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Cathy told the boy to sit in the seat behind her, and gave him her scarf for his face. He nodded and plucked the scarf gingerly from her hands, suspending it between the clean thumb and ring finger on his left hand.

Handicapping the Saints

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I've been a fan of hagiography—the lives of the saints—since first grade when Claude Dunham and I were asked to represent St. Stephen and St. Sebastian, two martyrs of the early church, in a tableau vivant of bored boys.

Year End Close-out

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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./ The rest is all murk and meander