| 1842  15  10   
 | chet baker shades my eyes
rippling through the cool water
sometimes we feed the fish | 
		
		
			| 2230  10  8   
 | Sand underfoot.It's raining        I say                                                           … | 
		
		
			| 1992  12  11   
 | I learned to love what we had: the long, bright days, the water all around us, and even their slithery bodies, which somehow never dried under the pounding sun.   | 
		
		
			| 1257  14  10   
 | Sitting together at Starbucks, we composed a long love letter which we've been mailing back and forth to each other, signing our name upon each receipt and returning it for the last nine months and it has grown to eighty seven pages, barely fitting in a shoe box. | 
		
		
			| 1691  10  8   
 | La Petite  Ange had lived all her life in Paris under the strange architectural twists of  Notre Dame.  She had been a Bluebell girl once, kicking her surprisingly  long legs into the air to the delight of plumbers and Prince du… | 
		
		
			| 2083  17  7   
 | Real men don’t screw around in Canada, he confided to the strawberry blonde sitting beside him at the Houston bar. He’d bought her a couple of beers, and her body language said she was interested. | 
		
		
			| 1655  13  10   
 | He'd tend the door himself in high lace up boots, orange rhinestone hot pants, a tight black t-shirt, and black boa with orange swirl. | 
		
		
			| 1888  18  9   
 | In my innocence and young mind, I thought that kiss would mean that someday we would get married | 
		
		
			| 1709  20  10   
 | The contrast can be summed up in a sip. | 
		
		
			| 1321  13  11   
 | I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were | 
		
		
			| 1292  12  10   
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			| 1444  12  10   
 | My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that. | 
		
		
			| 2196  9  9   
 | Matilda went wild at sixty-five. Legs left unshaven for the first time in fifty years, hair still and proud, knotted with forgetting. She’d roam the streets at night, a traveler without design. Matilda was a gardener of sorts, digging up all previous assu | 
		
		
			| 839  10  11   
 | "What's it like?"
Like everything else. We all do it, so how bad could it be? | 
		
		
			| 2071  20  9   
 | “Your mother has problems,” he told the kids. | 
		
		
			| 1626  14  10   
 | She wouldn't have been the first. | 
		
		
			| 1376  12  11   
 | Wanna,wanna, whoop de loop.  Hold my baby, kiss my mom,  dance the way I used to do.    Desktops, blacktops, cut and paste,  speed down hills, learn the rules,  Sister Saint Marion, married to Christ.    Sixteen, life-green, pink tights, Swan Lake,  an… | 
		
		
			| 1526  21  9   
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			| 1838  12  11   
 | The other day I’m in the backyard with one of my kids, doing what he’s calling a training exercise, which is basically the two of us with flashlights, shinning the beams over the grass and up into the night to see what we can see.  | 
		
		
			| 1656  20  9   
 |                                                          Leaves dance their way down,unfazed by this September heat.  Bus stop routines set already-summer ended years ago.A chipmunk scampers undera parked truck while once againthe young man does his morning… | 
		
		
			| 2139  26  9   
 | So they told him he better get ready to join the army because that’s where it was at, for him. After all, not everybody could split coconuts with their hands. | 
		
		
			| 2010  10  11   
 | We're each other's inside out. (100 words) | 
		
		
			| 1203  19  10   
 | got the space heater going in the desert
got a lot of space out there somewhere | 
		
		
			| 1512  13  11   
 | In the cool, damp morning, Jeremiah trembled, from the weight of the gun, from fear he would miss.  | 
		
		
			| 1844  13  10   
 | I need a different storage solution | 
		
		
			| 1464  9  10   
 | it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence. | 
		
		
			| 1480  11  11   
 | Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no. | 
		
		
			| 1604  13  10   
 | I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall | 
		
		
			| 1043  19  9   
 | it is said to make your manliness last forever | 
		
		
			| 1193  9  8   
 | This is what happens when a writer falls in love... |