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mizz-iceberg

  • Inner Peace

    Dont know what to name it. Inner Peace or The Question I like Inner peace better. here we go: The millions of twinkling stars dotted majestically on the vast cloudless ...

    6 min read
  • The Apocalypse

    A lone man walked slowly through the dense fog settled around Eliot Street. It was a rather warm night, but the man was dressed in a thick dark coat reaching ...

    5 min read
  • After Rain

    Clo's Contest. A Softer World No. 3. January 21st 1999 They’re dead. All of them. Gone. Just plain gone. It should hurt to think about it. But it doesn’t hurt. ...

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  • Snowflakes

    This is another entry for her contest. Of course I will only submit one. My other entry is called After Rain. No. 6 Snowflakes I bang at the door. “Mom! ...

    8 min read
  • Department Stores

    Inspired from Picture Prompt 1 Department Stores Department stores made Danny feel uneasy, especially department stores in a mall. Talk about traffic. Danny shifted the empty basket from his left ...

    9 min read
  • Letters to the Dead [1]

    This is for Cal's Some Kind of Chorus Contest. Word prompt: catharsis Song: The Decemberists --The Engine Driver Elizabeth Spry walked away from the cemetery, the train of her dress ...

    5 min read
  • Some Mettle for His Virility [2]

    This is for Cal's Some Kind of Chorus Contest. Word prompt: tragic hero Song: Tom Petty --Learning to Fly The desert sun blazed, blowing its hot breath on Adan’s back. ...

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  • Sentient

    Song: Burton Cunnings --Break it to Them Gently Word: Exodus ... Fifteen He had been a boy, naïve, enthralled by everything that lay in the outside world. Restless. With each ...

    7 min read
  • Sentient II

    Song: This One's for the Girls--Martina MicBride Word: Agora ... Thirty He’d been a man, a young but mature man. The dazzle of Septa paled into actuality and a routine ...

    11 min read
  • When Death Comes A'knocking.

    Song: Body in a Box --City and Colour Word: oracle ..... It was Friday, a cold, windy and hostile Friday when Saleem received the letter. He hadn’t expected it at ...

    12 min read


Almost all absurdity of conduct rises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson