One day of festering sun
Brought about a conversation
Between a holy deity
And something
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A dump like this shouldn't have an outdoor cafe, especially in this part of town. Not that it’s much- a few rusty black painted tables with matching chairs, all chained to the wall. This table has a ... [+]
June 13th, 2012
I'm hungry. I want pancakes. I untangle myself from Max and get off the bed.
I open the door to Mom and Dad's room and climb up. They look asleep. I could wake them, but
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The Cursed-Pumpkin-Field Festival had always been her favorite part of the year.
This year, unfortunately, her father had remembered that she’d turned twenty a month prior.
As he announced to
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I am in / the laboratory / with my hands / pulsing / under nitrile sky / I swipe / my tongue over / ... [+]
Dear me! Child do come in!
The storm is rampant I dare say!
Now, please do tell me what brings
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Stone never once spoke, my son. So why now
do you press down, waiting on words unheard
to
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The ape-prince was reclining on his throne one evening, surrounded by his treasures: silver drops of crystal moonlight, red robes woven from the silk of the sea-spider, periwinkle roses that bloom ... [+]
The average person uses different methods to escape from their problems. Some run marathons, some play basketball, others listen to music or strum their guitar. Whatever the means, we all try to lose ... [+]
“I got Fruity Pebbles,” David says before setting down his load of groceries in the middle of the tiled kitchen floor.
“Cool, thanks.”
He opens the refrigerator door with his foot but it
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Mr. Hazzard called for us to move to the next set. I was glad he got distracted for a moment before calling us to move because I had to break attention to figure out where that was. I located my ... [+]
The quiet that came with being on land was what annoyed the commodore most. A vessel underway had music to it, men and machine moving in time as if playing a symphony with him as the conductor. At the ... [+]
"You’re pretty for a black girl".
A qualification
for your racial equivocation,
as if my
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My eyes are brown and
my belly is swollen.
My mother always told me
"Everything in
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