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Blackbirdsong
R. Blackbirdsong 
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United States, NY, Turtle Island
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Open Veins Are Pure - Alien Poetry Challenge #11
Trapped inside my life...
Poetry|  Updated:22-03-08
Words:70|  Comments:11|  Status:Public

Momma Dee

From the day she was born Momma Dee had rarely been alone. At first she was one of a crowd of howling babies...

Short Stories|  Updated:02-11-07
Words:1715|  Comments:10|  Status:Reader

Metropolis

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Poetry|  Genre:Naga Uta|  Updated:27-08-07
Words:74|  Comments:17|  Status:Public

Green

Burgeoning with life
Leaves blossom potent fresh
Forest eyes behold
The sage of...

Poetry|  Genre:Nature|  Updated:25-07-07
Words:116|  Comments:9|  Status:Reader

First Kiss
Judgment is an easy thing. The cold swiftness of it leaves some prisoners trembling. One minute youâ??re free the next youâ??re not. Itâ??s just that easy. Just that swift. Some of the most hardened...
Short Stories|  Updated:21-07-07
Words:535|  Comments:28|  Status:Reader

Schizophrenia Soufflé
Voices echoing...
Poetry|  Updated:21-07-07
Words:148|  Comments:11|  Status:Reader

Puddles

Counting the money calmed her.
Twenties here.
Tens...

Poetry|  Updated:21-07-07
Words:258|  Comments:15|  Status:Reader

After she went downstairs
(This is a cutpiece collaborative; meaning that I took a newspaper article and then inserted my own words throughout.) She woke sometime after four in the afternoon. From March 1993 to November 1998,...
Creative Non-Fiction|  Updated:21-07-07
Words:449|  Comments:5|  Status:Reader

Plantin' Season

"How you think this one died?" said Pete, looking at their...

Flash Fiction|  Genre:Dark Humor|  Updated:26-06-07
Words:580|  Comments:15|  Status:Reader

Stone Fire

(Haibun)

...
Poetry|  Updated:26-06-07
Words:220|  Comments:4|  Status:Reader

Recognition

(Sestina)

...
Poetry|  Updated:26-06-07
Words:298|  Comments:4|  Status:Reader

Eventide

Because I would not sleep with death,
He came to me with arms of stone,
Seduction bloomed...

Poetry|  Genre:Romance|  Updated:26-06-07
Words:122|  Comments:4|  Status:Reader

My life without you was blue
Tinkling bells opalescent pearls, you smile...
Poetry|  Updated:31-05-07
Words:109|  Comments:9|  Status:Reader

Mr. and Mrs. Feeney
Archibald," said Mrs. Feeney, "why on earth are you standing over me with an ax?" "Well my dear, I was planning to splatter your brains all over the room," replied Mr. Feeney. "Archibald, you moronic...
Flash Fiction|  Genre:Dark Humor|  Updated:30-05-07
Words:642|  Comments:10|  Status:Reader

Cockcrow
I wish everyday could begin like this....
Poetry|  Genre:Erotica|  Updated:23-05-07
Words:226|  Comments:10|  Status:Reader

Birdsong

     We live in a Totalitarian State where nothing is as it was before. Our lives are organized, given to us without choice, or the fear...

Short Stories|  Genre:Science Fiction|  Updated:22-05-07
Words:531|  Comments:13|  Status:Reader

Comfort and Scorch
It wasn't supposed to be this way. I walked away with such confidence That you'd follow me out and coax me back in. But you just stood there and then closed the door. I walked away with such...
Poetry|  Genre:Pantoum|  Updated:21-05-07
Words:344|  Comments:8|  Status:Reader

A Murder of Crows
The bird's wings had done it. They had shattered the stony silence of the house. The sound they inflicted on the air as they flew into the night caused Ethda's skin to blossom goose flesh. "This is...
Flash Fiction|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:422|  Comments:14|  Status:Reader

Oedipus
These eyes of mine are tired from too much life....
Poetry|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:99|  Comments:12|  Status:Reader

I Sing My Song In Poetry
â??Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to...
Poetry|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:140|  Comments:5|  Status:Reader

September 30, 2000
(This is another cutpiece collaborative. This piece was actually quite difficult to put together. I wanted to use Muslim newspapers, to get that perspective. This story was headline news here and I...
Creative Non-Fiction|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:344|  Comments:5|  Status:Reader

Timmy
(This one may definitely offend some. I say this because it was written for a contest called "Wicked Little Girls." And well, this little girl proved to be too wicked for the contest. Enjoy!)...
Flash Fiction|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:577|  Comments:14|  Status:Reader

When Bercynthia braids her hair
When Bercynthia braids her hair All Godâ??s angels just stop and stare Since her radiance the sun must share For this woman is wild and rare As she sits barefooted and proud On a wobbly old kitchen...
Poetry|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:466|  Comments:14|  Status:Reader

Flies
The pain was all encompassing: the bright agony of daylight, every smell, both pleasant and not, the horrible tapping of endless pairs of shoes echoing the floor around her. She was under attack....
Short Stories|  Genre:Horror|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:1017|  Comments:12|  Status:Reader

On The Way To Tell
Scar-born innocence...
Poetry|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:56|  Comments:16|  Status:Reader

New Vein Old Hope
New vein old hope none...
Poetry|  Updated:17-05-07
Words:80|  Comments:12|  Status:Reader

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