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Gravity

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Written by: Ishish
Category: Prose
Created: April 22, 2010, 9:11 am
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It is cold and so is he. It has been years since his friend went but not yet.

“If I ever get cancer I will shoot myself.”

“I don’t believe you.”

He’s cold now and he was cold then. He grew up in the north but the temperature did not bother him and he felt cold inside.

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A Successful Failure

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Written by: Randy Kohl
Category: Prose
Created: April 21, 2010, 5:28 am
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     The whispers carried messages of despair and dismay.  A single word could change her mood.  She could feel the city crumbling in on itself imploding as a Red Giant folds under its own weight into a Black Hole.  The ornate architecture and steel monuments only earnest attempts to hide the insanity within.

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Dinner In Town

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Written by: DL Chance
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 7:32 pm
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   Whit and Ona Mae Willins lived all their married life together on a small spread about eight miles west of Farwell Texas.
   Farwell never had been much of a town. It started out ‘long about 1888 as a Fort Worth & Denver Railroad siding site and jerkwater stop, and immediately didn’t get much more important or noteworthy.

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Mommy's Colors

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Written by: ladyofthecanyon
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 3:10 am
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19 years and only just starting to search through mommy’s closet. Rifling desperately looking for a secret mirror window to her universe— stitched quietly in a jacket somewhere. The colors from then! From her life as a skydiver breathtaker beautiful vessel of kaleidoscope potential. I sit amidst a pile of bright reds oranges my favorite blues —as though she hand-picked the hues with me in mind before she knew my kicking form.

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Gorgon, Revisited

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Written by: ladyofthecanyon
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 3:03 am
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Stealing past the screaming kettle

in the Gorgon’s kitchen

I sat before the oven to pray to the

domestic gods.

Leaning forward the Pacific

rushing in my ears

I nearly tumbled

into the magpies

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