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  • Lounge, The Re: What was YOUR favorite NaPo this year?

    My poetry this year was an incredible mess, but I had fun NaPo-ing--took my mind off revision. Moi favourites were day two and day 24 . I'm sad that I ...

    May 4, 2015
  • Lounge, The Re: NaPo Victor's Hall

    I finished NaPo early, total-ling at 32; I've only posted 29 in my thread--30 now I've updated--and they're all a churny, awful-ly lot, but I'm proud of having actually completed ...

    May 4, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    Update: Poem 30 I know this update is late, uhm. my apologies for the falling asleep of my feet in the car, for being so slow, and so hopeful, and ...

    May 4, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    29/30 beetles in the attic lucy is at it again, dearie, canvassing paintbrushes on the ceiling and glazing them with turpentine thoughts that are missiles in the daydusk, in the ...

    Apr 25, 2015
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Top 5 best books you've ever read.

    This is going to be tough, considering these lists are ever-changing, but, let's give it a shot. 5. Emma ~Jane Austen I adore this book; it's an utterly fascinating read ...

    Apr 22, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    28/30 quelle horreur! where is the sun? it has gotten dark; of late, it is always dark--i have a feeling the sun has forgotten its place in the sky, and ...

    Apr 22, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    27/30 poem entitled 'rubbish' Dedicated to @AdrianMoon for convincing me to write not-depressing things

    Apr 21, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    26/30 If I hadn't forgotten my wallet at home, I'd be gorging on a burger a la dajjaj. But because I am stupid and lax, I've used my loose change ...

    Apr 21, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    25/30 and they all lived ever after the beast incarcerated the turnpike, sunk the well deep into the ground, sketched 'sadist' on the walls in bleeding ink. this is who ...

    Apr 21, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    24/30 my fingers have always held a fondness for theatrics; they seem to envy the grace with which ballet dancers bend to the wind and leap with swanly precipitous queenship. ...

    Apr 21, 2015
  • Media Reviews Re: Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter?

    I adore the LoTR movies; they are absolutely amazing and no sooner have I seen the last film that I want to watch the first one again. XD And the ...

    Apr 20, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    23/30 I've taken to calling him Train Boy. He is always there, relentless, gripping the iron handles of morning as though hoping—blindly— they will steer him on. But morning has ...

    Apr 20, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    22/30 catching words before they fall has become my favourite hobby my days are spent typing letters to people who will never receive them, to eyes that will never witness ...

    Apr 20, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    21/30 in which we hightail it to utopiapretence 'let's travel the world together.' it is never with disinterest that the topic is broached: wanderlust, you teaching me to drive. it ...

    Apr 19, 2015
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Dustmites in haphazard heaps*~

    20/30 if only this were Idlewild she is searching for kindred spirits in all the wrong places, in cities with too many souls to sieve through. her steps are incessant, ...

    Apr 19, 2015


The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening