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Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 3

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The urban-abused Chevy looked older than its seven years.

Desire

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The young monk rose early to jog, his appetites trailing like cats in heat.

The Tote Bag Song

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You can ask so many questions Of what’s it all about You can empty out the closets And roll the mothballs out But no one has the answers It’s all a mystery There’s a bigger picture But it’s really hard to see

Emotional Gentrification - excerpt Single Stroke Seven

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Sunday, Nolan and I drop by the ice rink on 10th and Alma to watch the amateur hockey leagues battle it out in an unspoken yet assumed class war: the buff, unemployed rink bums who can grind ice, cross-check, and stick handle like the pros, versus the dou

The Mythology of Rooms

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Estella

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Everyone loves a story of love unrequited. But what about the stories of the unrequited lovee?

The Guardian

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This Thing

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I'm sure someone somewhere must havefelt something like it before. Imean I've never been able tohave this kind of deep longing asif you might want to forget everythingyou know. I always figured that funny stuff onlyhappened to folks in a foreignfilm. Not to some guy…

Edward Ogle the fourth

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Charted stars by the dozens / with a side of frizzle onions / dawn showers us with glitter.

The tenth point of possession being this... Rev2

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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …

Picturing Utrillo

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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Nineteenth Century Noise

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The virtuoso tortures a violin/ in homage to Paganini.

Snatch XIII

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Kim Chow Click Click

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Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.

Abecedarian inspired by Bill Yarrow

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Despite what the bible says, Shadrach and Meshach had no third brother named Abednego. To pay for his cello lessons, Yo-Yo Ma worked the subways of New York as a busker. Just chill. After Sal went into witness protection, he yearned for a job at the art…

Wink

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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes

Sitting On a Powder Keg - song

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I just sit here thinking You’re cheating on me again It’s how you acted last time The same as it’s ever been Don’t wanna go ballistic What’s inside your head? Why don’t you just tell me Who’s been sleeping in that bed

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

Wet Work

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blinking out

Gabriel has lost his horn

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Arcana Magi Zero Arc 2 - c.4

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Marissa sat on her knees placing her hand on Alysia’s head. Her eyes held back her tears as she watched her daughter’s eyes shift back and forth.

Prayer

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Prayer

Air On The G String

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If love could only by heat be bound

John's Wife

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Unreasonable anger, Each hour prescribed The house haunted with good intentions,

abra

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Cars like sardines / Fell asleep keggling

quarried

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a chosen cantaloupe a child let loose . . .

I Ain't Your Kissin' Cousin - song

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I ain’t your kissing cousin That’s pretty plain to see Baby, keep your pretty lips Far away from me I ain’t your kissing cousin That’s pretty plain to see You’re really very pretty Come kiss me and we’ll see We don’t live in a barnyard

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 1

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The gaunt broken man walked with short quick steps on the uneven path.

wild gesticulations below a jasmine moon

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The Parade Route

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There will be no more internal birds like singing clocks, not like the lovely ones I know and still look forward to hearing, ringing like little bells in the church y belfry of the newly sprouting mornings to come, not unless the birds…