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Literate Reply

20092009 views66 comments00 favs

an oven mitt in Dachau

Lovelies on the Last Shore

20092009 views99 comments66 favs

All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.

Squirrel Boy, You Are My Toy

20082008 views55 comments11 fav

unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.

Cranshaw on the Road / Chapel Access

20082008 views1717 comments1616 favs

"Why so ornery?" she asked.

excerpt from a forthcoming novel

20082008 views44 comments33 favs

I wriggled in the bed and felt the sheets soaked with perspiration. My arms were lined with tape and tubing, needles pressed in veins. I reached for the cloth again and again, and every time they stopped me. The hands that came were cold and hard, urgent

Blowing Up While Fading Out

20082008 views88 comments44 favs

It calmed the guilt in my heart while kids reveled, laughed, and "made time" with the neighborhood girls on that final night of freedom. No one would talk to those girls again.

Denmark (or On the Death of John Updike)

20082008 views1111 comments33 favs

The impression old Updike left on a young mind.

Pewter Badge

20082008 views1010 comments55 favs

I never killed a cop before.

Notel Nobel

20082008 views1414 comments1414 favs

That was before Cohen died. Castro died. Castro Died should be a title by Samuel Beckett. Once I nearly went out to buy a bass clarinet just for the purpose of playing along with Leonard Cohen.

Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!

20082008 views11 comment00 favs

Morpheus dreams… […fairground atmosphere burlesque hand-operated steam organs calliopes cut and spliced reversed harmonium kaleidoscopic grotesque waltzing carousel…] PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL Grandest Night of the Season! and positively the LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! being…

Paris

20072007 views1515 comments77 favs

the boredom inherent in living in the suburbs

The MacGowans Flee West

20072007 views1212 comments1010 favs

Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population. If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.

The Death App

20072007 views99 comments66 favs

The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!

Smartphone

20072007 views22 comments33 favs

I believe in theCollective conscienceOf Mankind Whatever the masses wantComes into fruitionSome genius will create itIf we want warWe will get warWe don't want peaceSo we never get itJust consider The smartphoneWhat a great deviceIt seems as if we should neverBe bored…

Arcana Magi Memorial - c.5

20072007 views11 comment00 favs

Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.

Out of the Loop

20072007 views1717 comments1616 favs

Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.

September Morning

20062006 views1414 comments1010 favs

They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass

Good For The Ducks

20062006 views11 comment00 favs

It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…

And her child

20062006 views22 comments22 favs

The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.

Butterfly, a novel by Julie O’Yang (excerpt)

20062006 views55 comments33 favs

‘So what exactly did you decide?'It was two years later that Sato-san put the question to me. The two of us had been hiding for two bloody years, moving about in the marshes along the river, living off small, skimpy meals. We couldn't turn back to our unit, because Cesaru…

A Woman Who Watches

20062006 views1212 comments88 favs

She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.

Phantom Sister

20062006 views1313 comments1515 favs

We wonder if this is how we tangled in our mother's womb: hands to feet to heart.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Update)

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A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.(IMDB synopsis) That's the idea swimming so far as it is in…

The birds who coo

20052005 views55 comments22 favs

My mate and I are owned, but have freedom to take to the endless sky.

Top Ten Reasons Why I Stipple

20052005 views1111 comments66 favs

Chicks dig dots.

THE SHIFT

20052005 views1818 comments88 favs

"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"

Homecoming King

20052005 views55 comments22 favs

John Lipkin took a drag off his cigarette and rummaged through his desk drawer looking for pot. There wasn't any. He remembered looking last night, but he looked again now. There wasn't a damn thing, just some stems…

My Fictional Tormenter

20052005 views55 comments22 favs

Having a single blurb on your book cover is like having a single friend in grade school. So I lied.

Miracle Bra for my behind

20052005 views1010 comments11 fav

Do you want an ass mi Nina Bonita? I buy you jeans that work like a Miracle Bra for your behind.

Glance

20052005 views22 comments11 fav

I saw a former lover today, by complete accident.