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FloatIt was the last day of summer, balmy and bright, and Danny and I were drinking root beer floats outside our favorite soda fountain. Women passed by in skimpy sun ...

For Incog and Dreamwalker's Claw against Fang: Vampires vs. Werewolves contest.WereWolfsong sound sonorous over valley—Huntingsong victoryAll eat well fat warm deermeatTendersteaming fleshWatch bloo

Busy as a BeeShe pranced like a tethered ponyHeld just out of reach of a carrotBy the fraying hemp rope on her halter.A little boy taunted her with the treatAs ...

"Once upon a time..." A phrase I am certain you have heard countless times. A phrase so often used to begin a tale. A phrase I absolutely detest. Why, you ...

Little MonkeyIt wasn't dark. It wasn't cold. It wasn't foreign, and she wasn't lost. It was a warm summer's day. She was sitting in her bedroom, the only one she ...

Written for a picture prompt. The picture can be found here, for those who are curious. --- Angel A glint of silver. A flash of gold. Vibrant red dimmed from ...

I've lived in this place for fifteen years --played in the yard, imagined worlds,stacked its stones and picked up its sticks,uncovered every nook and cranny of the vinyl facade --and ...

A quick little poem prompted by a random word generator since I haven't written any poetry in a Lie:To lie is: to believe in a false truth,To deny things as ...

Some emotions more terrible than hate.Brother DearOh, brother dear (not dear to me),Could I care less what you do?It should be no concern of mineIs what I have been told.Your ...

Ever since Event #5, I've been itching to write a terzanelle. So I did, and here it is.The Last Days of WinterIt is late in the season as I sit ...

Experimenting with a lack of capitalization and punctuation. I'm quite happy with the result. I only wish I could center this; it looks and reads much better. D:Nate is awesome. ...

Was intended for Rosey Unicorn's Beginnings of Magic contest, but it wound up being more of "this is what magic is" rather than "this is where magic begins". *sadness*It's a ...

I was going through my writing folder when I came across these older poems. I still like them, so I figured I might as well post them up for review ...

Rip this apart. Mercilessly. It is terrible, but I want to see if it is possible to salvage.---SameTrite, banal, run of the mill,Uninspired, unoriginal, vapid and worn out,Trying so hard ...

audio feedback --cicada chorus pierced bycricket interludesfades into screeching --a muted stereo track,decayed frequency,silence.

Tell me, does the rain fall where you are? Does it sometimes come pouring down in sheets that hammer the roof above your head, even as the thunder rumbles so ...

Bound tight in thread, you sit morose, the world around you cast in blue.And there is naught but stillness.Then the music starts,tentative, reedy,just enough to make you riseand search for ...

I call to the lost: you who are here in either frailest flesh or soundless spirit, you who are here in neither, you who are here in both. I call ...

There are times when I deny the things I KNOW beyond doubt, when my rationality turns in upon itself and becomes an object of habitual consensus, and I deny the ...