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Twenty-Five Word Stories: Sunrise

Posted on 25/04/2016 by

I scream to the sky–no answers; I ask for accommodations I cannot have. We request this: A prelude, an overture, for what you’ve wanted…

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25 Word Stories: Convenience

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50 Word Stories: Valence

Posted on 07/09/2015 by

She slept through countless evocations, sky-less traipses that were strict: averse gateways kept under ambivalent conditions. Doing so ensured her overlooking an answer. The puzzle of “being” something only fed her disdain– a healthy vision only attainable in dreams. It … Continue reading →

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25 Word Stories: Remonstrant

Posted on 23/08/2015 by

Her litanies at supper were remonstrant hisses that culled and lulled her handiwork; Invoking her upbringing before meals wasn’t enough to fulfill her ungodly aims.

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75 Word Stories: Correspondence

Posted on 15/08/2015 by

In the sixteenth century, it was customary (cautious?) to assume some were in correspondence with the afterlife–that they were witches. To this end, and to a significant degree, those in question were purged. Now, we preach other messages, hoping to … Continue reading →

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75 Word Stories: Confluence

Posted on 13/08/2015 by

These encounters, these pleas– such misinformed stalks vitiate me: a keel-hauling through a body whose waters burn with bromine. You will discover my moorings clean from fasting, from strict ashes; I stiffen for your bind. Filter me down, again, to … Continue reading →

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50 Word Stories: Compline

Posted on 12/08/2015 by

With these last laps I leapt with devotion turned distant at your dismissals; I consecrated myself with only You in my mind. Now my song for you is finished with a sprite fluttering, and corporeal liturgies flow from my body … Continue reading →

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50 Word Stories: Erasure

Posted on 09/08/2015 by

She was told it could be “overcome;” given pills as tools to survive; given a place, a time, to talk with a therapist about dreams bigger than her own. Her condition isn’t so codified, or one of such solitary refinement. … Continue reading →

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50 Word Stories: Range

Posted on 07/08/2015 by

You counted every success, every failure, like points in your game. You split into strands and magnified the peaks of your own denial, expected us to pull you from your pilloried past. After each loss, was it really so strange … Continue reading →

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50 Word Stories: Poison

Posted on 04/08/2015 by

She’d always pick the high road and struggle to stay there, even if it meant unfolding, or, desiccation was the price. Her secret to survival wasn’t that she held onto her precious reserves, but that she’d drawn a path of … Continue reading →

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