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Ban for having evil eyes

Banned for being a judgmental vegan.

Welcome. I see you have a flair for winter in your avatar as well

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Sweet dreams to the cat in you

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It was a good contest with lots of good writers. Congrats to Paperboy, Welsh Dreamer, Ping!, and all the other top 12!

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Depends on my deadlines.

WYR write from the cuff, or have the story laid out with lots of notes?

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In the message you said
you were going to bed
but I'm not done with the night
so I stayed up and read
got your words in my head
got me mixed up so I turned out the light
and I don't know how to slow it down

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      Chaos strikes without a warning Decisions made were silently storming Lost house, car, and job in a single morning So I cast my bootstraps on without glee Time to prove I'm still alive, still me Discovering myself on a rebuilding spree And this is the home I've made, for better or worse Have I set myself free or cast my own curse I became full of joy and endless wonder She was...

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God’s Tears (Part One) Long after the sticky drab of an all day late August rain, the trees still spit on me. The fog rolls in, like a thick blanket, smothering the hustle and din I’ve grown accustom to. Only the expectancy of a passing cop car can cut the smothering. There is more than just the eerie quiet that shakes me to my core. Can you feel the dank air, eating you from within, like...

Added 11 Oct 2018 | Category Musings | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 377 | 4 Comments

Crossings   and remembering a school of fish, calm and lazy, and of wanting their serenity so bad I ALMOST jumped overboard, remembering that everything was as it should have been, … as these thoughts drift through me like forgotten snowflakes blowing ‘cross the highway   and panic as a deer leaps in front of me, Kamikaze reflex check, stupid doe… and how graceful is her sprinting...

Added 10 Oct 2018 | Category Poetry | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 437 | 4 Comments

Laurie, Laurie, lay your locks down low, (and smother me with cream soda kisses). Let us skip away the day, wearing only an August sunset, and dance on the Lilly pads. We’ll make love to the harvest moon, for life, is beautiful.   Laurie, Laurie, gather seeds to sow, (and get me drunk with amaretto kisses). Let us build a bonfire that burns deep, and scream each other's name into...

Added 28 Jun 2018 | Category Poetry | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 214 | 3 Comments

It’s morning after the night before. The heavy smothering fog is giving way to the dew tickling my toes. The crickets and birds meld with the crashes and bangs, with the hustle and bustle of a city eager to get the new work week over with already. God takes a moment to smile at me in the twilight, and promises new sunlight just over the horizon. Freeing my mind, I stop to see that the world...

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