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Memories
Memories aren’t as good if you dont have someone you love to share it with.
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You win, I lose
I have chosen to gauge myself by the measure of your life.
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Gravitas
My father sent me a postcard of the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. On the back, he wrote: “Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow Speak gently, she can hear the daisies grow.” Oscar Wilde’s lines, but I knew “she” me...
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Hey Stranger
Hey stranger Who are you? You seem familar Like somone I love. Are you that person? I can barely reconize you. You seem so distant. Do you know who you are? Do I? Hey stranger. Don’t go, I feel like I know you And I think you know me.
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I Wish, I Think
I need peace. That seems impossible now. My thoughts are constantly, Unchangably on you. I wish things were different. Then I could welcome These thoughts, These memories. I wonder If you Think of me as much as I think of you. I wish it were so.
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Worth the Fight
I would be lieing If I said I wasn’t Still taken by you. That I dont Think about you constantly, And that not talking to you Isn’t killing me Like frost to a delicate rose. Change is my last resort. Tired of this dismal scene. I just want ...
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Olivia's bad day (redux)
Holly shivered and pulled the thin material of her cardigan around her shoulders more tightly. It was surprisingly cold in this draughty corridor by A&E and the cheap plastic chair was digging uncomfortably into her legs. She’d barely noticed...
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Olivia has a bad day
The hospital was either too cold or too hot, she could never remember which. As promised, Holly held her hand as a sequence of nurses took her vitals, tutted over the fact that she was obviously a junkie, and sutured the cut on her temple. They were al...
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The Dark Side of Castigation
“I get it now. The sad part is that she’ll never love you. You know that right? I mean, look at you.” He couldn’t smirk with his split lips but I got the message. A train passed by in my head and in its wake I found myself hammering...
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Honoring the Bargain
The chill of the night air penetrated clothes with ease and the ground, darkened by shadows, mirrored the moonless sky above. We stood in the bowl of the valley, surrounded by tree-covered hills that kept outsiders out and hid our rites from prying eye...
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Moving Cities
He stood at the bus stop, his body shuddering to the dull thud, thud, thud of the city beneath him. He glanced round at the other commuters, going about their lives, seemingly immune to the changes he was experiencing. The bus turned left, then right, ...
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Half right
(italic_)“Maycomb townspeople are no more capable of fairness than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootlaces.”(_italic) Jem once said, echoing Vladmir Lenin. Now, after his death, her children raced through their uncle’s house, ...
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Every BMW has a Sphincter
The driver in front of me swerved abruptly into the right lane. No blinker or anything, I swear he didn’t even look. Somebody should show him what he did was wrong. Not me though. My anger had gotten me into trouble in the past but I was learning...
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A lesson in loyalty
“I don’t like your tone of voice Jonas.” Suddenly Jonas couldn’t speak, he couldn’t even open his mouth. His mouth wouldn’t budge. Jonas tried to scream, all that came was muffled cries. “I think you may need to be taught a lesson in ...
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The Juxtoposition of Prometheus
Proud, independent Eagle flew as far as her wings and the wind could take her. One day Eagle spied an ugly rock, that she alone found beauty in. The rock became Home. She still journeyed afar but returned to the rock each night. Crow asked Eagle, ̶...
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Wait
As I sit and wait; I hope with all my heart that I’m not pregnant because I don’t want to have to hurt you. I don’t want to have to tell you that I don’t believe in abortion for me. And I don’t want you to feel like you ha...
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Respect
Here, have a cigar. Whatsamatter? Ah, right. Don’t know how that got in there. These things just turn up all over the place in my line of work. So, ya wanna know how I got to the top. Well, I’ll tell ya. It all comes down to one word: respe...
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My Last Intersection
I let the engine roar a little louder, and the wheels turn a little faster than I should have, but the road was empty. I wasn’t doing much over ninety. The green dot in the distance marked the intersection before the one that I could turn left at...
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The Ship
Low evening fog descended around the ship, seeping a sheen of frost across the deck. The helmsman pulled tight his long coat and scarf, steeling himself against the cold. At their back the lights and towers of the city Urund-ir had already begun to fad...
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I Know What I'm Talking About
I stare at her and I am amazed. I think to myself, “Dammit, I know what I’m talking about. You can’t be right about everything!” However, to keep the peace, I say nothing. I go into that quiet and dark cave to light the flame ...
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A Long Way Down
His hands hurt. His head hurt. Most of the rest of him hurt too, but the hands, those were definitely bleeding. A vertical strip of padding was missing from each hand’s glove. The edges of the hole blackened by the friction. The skin beneath sto...
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Jealousy's Tune
The song that sings to me “you know you aren’t good enough for her”.
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Concrete Angel
Through the wind and the rain I stand hard as a stone in a world that I can’t rise above. I react to my hardships with the British stiff upper lip that made us strong in Medieval combat. It’s that which makes me strong that makes the friend...
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It begins...in HMV
It started in HMV, that is to say it started for one person. For another, it ended. Waiting in line to purchase the latest and hottest CD release of the week Bens world was about to be upended by sheer bad luck and a cursed fate. He paid the cashier an...
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Day Seven
Dear Diary, I did, didn’t I? I spoke too soon and now it’s all fucked! Probably God getting his revenge. I was always told that pride was a sin. Is that pride? It’s just that at about midday we heard a massive cracking noise and the w...
