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I read too many books. Stories of broken, billowing, stormcloud love, the passion that comes with hard edges, the darkness with small breakthroughs of light. I mistakenly wish for that passion. The fragments of girlhood within me long for the drama of tormented love. Sometimes I need to... - Poetry > Free VerseThe faded moon is a patch sewn into the pale fabric of the sky. And I take solace in the old cliché That I can look at the same moon As you. As if the sky is a well-worn blanket that is wide enough to wrap around both of our shoulders. It stretches just far enough To bring me closer To...
- Poetry > Free VerseI would be stretched almost to popping point with words and ideas and music (sonatinas, African drums, orchestras climbing to climaxes) and color and Italian food and friendship and all the best movie lines and raindrops and a heart like a cup overflowing and languages like foreign spic...
- Poetry > Free Verseis knowing that I am one of those blinking lights in the sky, and somewhere a child is looking up wondering why some stars have colors like Christmas lights and move through the sky like dragonflies trailing antennae through reflecting pools....
- Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy“Risha, please, what’s wrong?” Everything. Everything that I am about to do. Risha did not pause in her purposeful walk, nor did she answer his question. Her silence forced him to follow her all the way to the edge of the deserted village, where she stopped and faced him. Forcing her ...
- Poetry > All PoetryIt's one of those rare warm winter days When the sun keeps the clouds at bay for a while And it melts away your January skin And the cool breeze counters the heat And the music is mellow and lazy in the thick air And the cider is carbonated gold on your tongue And the smell of sunscreen mak...
- Poetry > All Poetry88 keys in my two hands And cold metal on the ground A night-black wall before my eyes Music, music all around. Crystals tinkling in soft midair Rivers running dark and deep The flow of wind across my skin My choice, to give or to keep. A radiant light from sky above Reflecting the ocea...
- Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyThe gypsy wagon jerks unexpectedly to a stop. I try to hide my relief that the uncomfortable journey is finally at an end. The others gleefully jump out of the wagon, their whoops and screams echoing hauntingly throughout the wilderness. I clamber out of the wagon as well, pausing on the top of the ...
- Poetry > All Poetrylights flicker, flutter, flash, fail blackout [loud silence] candles lit: chase away creeping darkness but, always creeps back rain pounds-wind howls flash: lights! jubilation (short-lived) flicker, flash, false hopes, fail blackout [loud silence] cold numbs: fire melts la...
- Poetry > All PoetryThe logs are burning, but the fire's cold The sun is out, but the day is old. The leaves are moving, but the air is still The plant is green, but the life's been killed. The eyes are eager, but the thoughts are scared The voice is dull, but the memory cared. The cup's half full, but the ...
