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Category: Fiction
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The Tower Block by Jane Davidson
You live in the tower block, filed away and forgotten.But, you know your neighbours well,from the storiesyou read throughthe thin walls. You live in the tower block, unable to walk outside. But, a piece of the sky belongs to you as wide as your windows. There are no pets allowed.…
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Abandoning by Jackson Dammann
Whoever saidsex and hungerare our most powerful urgesclearly never tried the stuff Iβm on. This stuff is Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β teeth on neck Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β cold static through veins unpolluted stars the piece of me that was always missing. Need to cut back budget donβt need the Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β car cable friends just need…
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Late Summer Evening by Anne Mikusinski
The dayβs fever breaksSubtlyAs thin white cloudsTrace eggshell cracksAgainst the fading blue.The heat leavesQuietlyIn sighing gasps ofTepid airCircling the drainLanguidlyAs night comes inSpreading outIts indigo dropclothAnd sprinkling the starsUpon itHaphazardly. Anne Mikusinski has always been in love with words. Sheβs been writing poems and short stories since she was seven.…
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Reflections Close to Closing Time by Anne Mikusinski
It’s three minutes pastThe last time I checkedI’m so informedAs time is marked by thin gold hands.Around me,Life happensIn couplesIn groupsEvenIn the singular purposeOf the man next to meGlaring at his phoneGoogling solutionsHave meritThe room is fullOf sound bitesMurmured conversationMusic of the earnestBand of the eveningDebates and discussions on human…
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Columbine, Will You Be Mine? by Douglass Allen
My cultivated garden grows, seeds in rows,Gently tendered, watered, sun enough and earthβDaisy, hollyhock, delphinium, andColumbineβwill you be mine?Blessed flowers, blessed birth. Iβve grown discouraged, bummed out, glum.Flowers should enchant, delight, soβTell me the flawβ my failed green thumb?Germination yes, but oh, oh no! From someone so upset, chagrinβLet me…
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Carmenere by Matthew Hunt
I want to taste the golden sunThat sits so cold on this high unending plainAnd over the multivariate earthIts rays to soils unlightened bearThe sweet, lost dreams of stars afar.Is it possible to seeFrom this sliver, this crescent scratch of ground,Wherein our habitat moments pass,The snows that never melting lieIn…