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This was one of my majors last year, and it got good marks, but in retrospect its embarrasingly amatuerish. Makes me nauseous how crap it is. The concept was okay, ...
Needs a lot of work, I know. Feel free to shred. PG 13 for violence. Shards [nix] "We're going to drown." He says, "Take my hand. Up, we need to ...
the romantic he was unaware that when she said till death do us part she meant la petite mort (Foot note: la petite mort, [for those who aren't Clau] translates ...
The Heroine Addict Little Betty Noir was not upset. Most heroines, she knew, were orphans. Disposing of her parents was hardly problematic. (Foot note: Bête noire is the French phrase ...
corresponding I am the curl of phrase the breath in the wire. A bandaid; If I am good, you will forget me, and the wound you bid me bind.
I Can't Be Rid of You It's melody masked and immersed in malarial malady; Cloaked in a cough, screaming take it all off, and a chill. Diet rest and exorcism ...
Disagreeable Persons (Grammar's) First Person: Extended pornography- Strippers hide their souls.
I, quiver anew, a new quiver, I the bed of your arrow, I, callow and soft Buttery, I, fluttery Decoupage my décolletage Am I so be-cumming, boys? Sperm spatter suffrage ...
Because you are part of their family tree, they think they can prune you.
He likes when she is flushed from the shower her vermilion veins vermicular peel her proud pallor particular her wet hair knotted whiskery eels, and her sour peppered white-sauce musk ...
She was slain by her own toiletries. She had been happily engaged until she saw the bristles of her toothbrush leaning against his, and the "family size" sunscreen, and the ...
“That’s a pretty toy, preacher man,” she says. The lines of her body are angular and improbable. She wears layers of other people’s clothes; each garment ragged enough to be ...
Oh who am I kidding, I'm cw bound anyways. **puts on the boots** "Because what I wanted was a revolution" the sky is blue, woo-ohhh, we all want to change ...
"The management apologizes for the poor quality of the two dollar strawberry punnets. Most people would think that strawberries, by virtue of being strawberries, would be sweet, tender, and desirable,
Lottë and the German Student"Ich fing an. I began.Ich habe angefangen. I have begun.Ich hatte angefangen. I had begun." I keep my eyes on the music. This is the fifth ...
Cruda AmarilliCruel Amaryllis, who even with the 'bitterness' Of your name, alas, bitterly teach; Amaryllis, purer and more beautiful Than the white privet, But deafer, fiercer and more fugacious Than
Trumpter Rory Foxton, MBE,pulls on his mottled ugg-boots with a grunt,he didn't let them dry from last night, see,the stitching's rotted right through at the front.He takes the short cut ...
The First Dividing Cell in the Primordial Sea I was so thin-skinned before I knew you. Everything went straight through me; sound, heat, light. They were indistinguishable one from the ...
The Soldier and His SweetheartFrom the front steps he can hear the clank of dishes through the kitchen window. The dog trots to him and rolls over. Its ears fall ...
A Pair of Megalibgwilia ramsayi Hibernate During the Ice Age My mother was a great beauty. Her spines were pale as spinifex, and deadly sharp. Any predator to take her ...
StollenStollen Out in the streets, a dog is barking at the car horns. By the window, the soldier's mother weaves her hair into a bun. Her hands are thickening at ...
A Spermatozoon I am one of the billions he created. My brothers say, “Surely, he made each of us for a purpose. He loves us. We are his children.” I'm ...