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December 24, 2009 10:15 PM EST --
It was blue
That was the point
It was so sudden
Just that moment
Sky at dusk
How can I tell you?
It was this color
Soft yet deep
Cool yet . . .
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December 13, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
I tried using my new camera and as you can see, it's a bit blurry. I did about 12 takes and actually, this was the foggiest and the most appropriate. When I get a memory card, I can do a longer . . .
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December 11, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
This week's genre is Fantasy . Your story may be serious or light hearted or as silly as you like just so long as it is 100 words or less and written for the following prompt
Tell me . . .
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December 04, 2009 11:29 PM EST --
Here’s to kindness
It lifts you up
No matter how far
You’ve fallen down
It gives you back
Your heart
From the lost and found
It may be hard
Or even scary . . .
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November 19, 2009 12:29 PM EST --
The glue
Sticky
Stuck
Still moist
Pliable
Fragrant
There
That one
See it?
Kind of white in color
Roped
Like taffy
There
Between those souls
Between . . .
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November 01, 2009 06:31 PM EST --
I have belonged to a writing group since 1989, called The Six Foot Ferrets. The name of the group came from one of our "circle" stories that we somehow could not end. One of the members . . .
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September 22, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
The angel wondered why her friends never come to visit her out here. She walked past the barn and toward the house, admiring the rows of plowed ground where the farmer must have been planting something. . . .
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August 27, 2009 05:18 PM EDT --
The young deer steps out of the woods antlers soft and tentative he lifts his muzzle to the leaves of the sassafras tree
Stumbles away on his lame foreleg with a trusting look in his eye The sun glances . . .
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August 26, 2009 04:27 PM EDT --
The cool air feels so wonderful. I am somehow too stunned to believe it. The congealed mental sludge in my brain from weeks of melted thoughts has left me too tired to do anything. One . . .
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July 08, 2009 10:58 AM EDT --
The way I feel
I could not give you
My hand
It is not possible
From this distance
Silent partners
No longer in
The same room
My soul is borne by
Emptiness, a lovely void
With . . .
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June 17, 2009 06:18 PM EDT --
I am in the cave fathoms deep
as lifetimes float by
a fragrance here a vista there
five stones for the buddhas attend my birth
the blue one fiercely grins
the white one winks
I nestle in the . . .
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June 03, 2009 01:25 PM EDT --
As soon as I turned out the lights, I became aware of the night sounds. Crickets whirred and a soft, cool breeze blew on my neck as I leaned over the windowsill to breathe in the night air.
. . .
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May 26, 2009 08:37 PM EDT --
It's been awhile since I got one of these oh-so-personal emails from the desperate royal son or daughter of the assassinated prime minister, company magnate, or deposed prince offering me thousands of . . .
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May 14, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
Why can't I be the iridescent dragonfly
Wings unfurled in glorious escape
She knows so well the pathway to transcendence
The uplift of the air that brings transcendence
. . .
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April 26, 2009 07:57 PM EDT --
His deep set eyes, piercing the wall beyond
He doesn’t mean to, he can’t help it
His mind so well-trained to catch
The wrongdoers, those enflamed sprites
With their minds bent on . . .
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April 12, 2009 09:40 PM EDT --
Transcript of AUDIO-Report by Exploratory Agent Mengon-60,
Stardate 2540, Vinod5, 1300 hours.
Agent Mengon-60 reporting :
Entering structure ,,, [data analysis] … called . . .
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April 05, 2009 11:23 PM EDT --
The night :
Ever since you discovered your power, you have known me.
I am home in you, and you are mine. When there is no color, there's sound. No sound, there's feeling. . . .
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March 29, 2009 07:00 PM EDT --
The bridge above
the ever-moving depths
trees swaying back and forth
like sentinels upon our minds
their greenness dripping down
O’ may our blood
be fused with theirs
in tune with those
remembered . . .
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March 12, 2009 01:20 PM EDT --
I thought your name was Tanya
Eliza, or Selene
I couldn't tell
Though I was sure you were a girl
I felt the quickening
And let my body grow
But there was pain
Oh, so much pain
I went into . . .
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March 11, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
She stood
A tall streak of black
In the pause between raindrops
Bleeding like a watercolor pastel
Against the gray-cloaked buildings
She held herself
In still indecision
Sifting data
Gigabits . . .
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Stirling D.
Poughkeepsie, NY
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