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Dorothy

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Written by: matttvalades
Category: Prose
Created: March 30, 2011, 9:56 am
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Today I found a few polaroids from the week I met Dorothy. In one she stares out past the camera like a fish from it’s bowl: glubbing cool and stunned. Light and time have washed out the film, transforming it into a screen of maybe five or six real colors.

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A Choice

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Prose
Created: March 29, 2011, 1:43 pm
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It 's a few minutes after eight o clock.  Peter has just slipped through the alley side door of Stephen Clifford Carroll’s condominium.  Carroll had given Peter a key so he could come and go as the needs of their project required.  Tonight Carroll will review Peter’s new drawings for next month’s city council presentation. 

 

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Labels

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Written by: wickedwahine_69
Category: Prose
Created: March 28, 2011, 5:51 am
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I’ve been labeled as many things

Some more true than others

Gregarious Wild Child

Daughter Sister Mother

Sometimes I let the labels stick

If I like the way they look,

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Roundabout

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Written by: ralphbland
Category: Prose
Created: March 25, 2011, 9:51 am
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Ralph Bland                                                              App. 8500 words

Rebland1@aol.com

www.ralphblandlitworks.com

                                    ROUNDABOUT

                                    By Ralph Bland

          About a million years ago when I was a whacked-out weird-ass sophomore at a little Church of Christ college in Nashville, I got to where I spent a predominant number of weekend nights solely in the company of myself.

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The Rodeo Catholic

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Written by: kateburgauer
Category: Prose
Created: March 22, 2011, 2:53 am
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"Hey Rich? Ya see that new bull they brought in yesterday?" The young man's face was a sun-darkened brown. Worry lines created deep furrows undeserving of a man his age. He leaned apprehensively on the red-piped corral and listened.

Rich nodded.

"He's awful big.

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