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Not a soul watched as the coffin was lowered into the ground. A father dying was no longer of interest to the islanders. Instead, all eyes were on the departed’s son, who stood over the hole an arm’s length from his mother. Grief was far more compelling than the dead,… Read more.
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hello all, I’m going to be (definitely not publishing) previewing my novel “Pray for Us,” chapter by chapter over the next 22 (?) weeks. With interest by a couple of agents I figured I’d put it out there before taking it further elsewhere. Read more.
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Thinly gilded copper Tied with straps, virulent with jewels Stranger colors Among god’s smaller things, I hide Lacquer dimly shone, slick Pour into smaller cups Another man’s, maybe Sleep as virtue and velvet coat Witnesses to outer dark Read more.
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Cheap plastic sign in the grass in front of a shopping center Lose weight fast 40 pounds in two months No pills No doctors No diet No hunger No cravings No exercise What a thing, I thought Seas of galvanized household items A face leers from the greenish grime of… Read more.
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A woman sits on a bus stopacross the street from a small brick firehouse and a mexican restaurant named after a work of byronthe bus comes and she doesn’t get ondown the street is another mexican restaurantcalled sangrias and a gas station that says 24/7 in neon color above the… Read more.