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want
Some days I want to slap you, other days I want to kiss you, but today I want to be able to walk away from you.
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Communicating Through Yellowing Postcards
It’s rumored that the human brain has such an extensive and colorful vocabulary, that we can only really think of five words at a time. Hence the stuttering, the stumbling, the choking. The words better left unsaid become forgotten within a ...
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Castaway
A new beginning, or a dead end? My choking brain (drowning in the sorrows of the heart) begs me to give in, to put me out of my own misery. I chop my hair off so the blade doesn’t return to my wretched wrists. And deep down don’t deny tha...
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The Note
The note crinkled and shuddered in his hands as if trying to decide from what perspective it was being read, after a moment words that might be considered legible scrawled across the page My apologies, I had to borrow the vacuum to clear up the mess ma...
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The Vault
The vault usually had what he needed so Frank had climbed the sound of chimes in the courtyard to pluck a leaf from the Bhodi tree, he had collected his certificate of sanity from the non-mad science corner in the lab and plucked the key from underneat...
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what even is (draft)
i woke up naked like a rolled up vegetable your ears popped and i smelled the stench of pretzels
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delete me as soon as you can (draft)
this was once a random thought floating above your head and now it’s a broken dream floating, sinking, dead
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With Autumn Comes Change. (2)
I’m the only one who can help! Jenna’s realization began with a moment of hesitation as she tried to recall the right order for CPR assistance. She had been taught basic life support by the Greely Fire Department paramedics about a year ago, but if...
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i literally just improvised a song and it turned out really well
my guitar is out of tune and i don’t know what to do when the feedback has all died away and i don’t know what to say i met you once in a dream and i don’t know what i’ve seen and i don’t know what to say but i say it anyway you are the out o...
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Barrio la Paz
The smell of roasting flesh filled the air with blue plumes of smoke. It was a beautiful day, with a clear blue sky and a salt wind which carried the crash of surf from the near distance where men fished in the old ways, with spear and sheer lung capac...
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The Spectral Force, Triumphant!
Slowly, light enveloped his body as two other spectral shapes condensed into being nearby. They coalesced into large, geometrically armored figures, one a blazing white and the other a deep violet. Cleric stood, and around his form was a similar mantle...
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cry
And i don’t care to cry because no one will stop to pity me.
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Eureka! (Another Day in My Head)
There is just this barrage of thoughts flying through my head- whoosh! Like gusts of wind I reach out a hand and GRAB! But just as wind it disappears soon enough and reincarnates itself as Waves. the slow wash up, almost there— and back down. Dra...
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30 Ideas
Tulips / plane rides / hotel stays / Touring the world / History / Returning home Reunion with a lover / farewells / fickleness of the heart / Flesh and nails / First day in class / Meeting new people Distant friendships / Ticking clocks / Maturing cho...
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A Host of Suspicions
He ushered her into the well-lit house, barring the heavy door behind them. It was a well kept home, considering the times. A small fire sputtered in the hearth and the furniture was worn but clean. He took off his coat and hung it on the peg before ad...
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Building the Bandwagon
Streams flowing upward/ That’s not a snake/ Morning ritual (of death)/ Ogrecide?/Superheros as embodiments of cities/ Write to life/ Blue impostor/ Generation gap/ SP-P-P-EED SHOES!/ Deep space cartography/ Desperate measures in metric and U.S. c...
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A Girl's Best Friend
Brain strained at the end of his leash, each step a struggle to get a little farther. Penelope was glad that he wasn’t a particularly big dog. It was hard enough to get him to go where she wanted as it was. If he weighed another twenty or thirty ...
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All Locked Up
The Zoo had nothing for me. All their animals were still locked up in white fiber-glass cages. Still R&D had never led me wrong before. I was missing something important but I couldn’t put my finger on what. I gave the Keeper a wry smile and ...
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A New Project
He shuffled up the gravel path, hoping she would turn around when she heard his approach. All that accomplished was the scuffing of his boots, so he stopped a respectful distance away and cleared his throat. Still no response. So he went for the direct...
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Make It So
Running On Full / Fireflies / Thrift Store of the Future / Fake Brass Bowl / Blue Lights at Night / Noisy Neighbors / Just a Photograph / Odd Musical Instruments / Escape Hatch / ‘cause it’s written that way / mardi gras beads / Sidekicks R...
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Melody the Unicloud: Smoke Signals
Heedless of any danger or threat to her own well being, Melody charged into the forest determined to stop whatever was going on. Weaving through the trees, leaping over fallen logs, she relied on her powerful sense of smell to guide her in the right di...
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30 Ideas
What’s in the old pond? / Love gutters / Best looking girl at JitB / With role models like these… / I have a ponytail, hear me Roar (shut up) / Washing away guilt with blood / To kill again / Seventh time’s the Charm / Ice chewing (fo...
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ideas pre-ficwrimo
5 minutes more/just one thing/sunday school/satscene/questions/prayers/blanket of comfort/6th floor fire/hypocrites/revival/survival/miracles/zebra chunks/and that was just sunday/ working at school/cds out the car window/overheard while catering/kids ...
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Rumors Stronger than Truth
Mike hunched over and slid against the wall trying not to be seen. He wished he had a newspaper,a book- anything. He opened his mobile and looked down at the picture of his girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend now, a nasty voice in his head reminded him. Footstep...
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No One Knows the Half of It
My rage roiled deep inside of me, a whirling storm of fire, pain, and destruction. It started in heart and in my head, twin springs bursting forth. Hot springs of emarassment that turned to hatred even as they boiled along the length of my arms and dow...
