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Cold As Ashes
Waking up in a bed was weird. It didn’t happen that often, these days. She opened her eyes, sticky and crusted with blood, and groaned at the obscene amount of sunlight in the room. Everything was quiet — the outside … Continue reading
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Tagged blue-eyed man, cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, fear, fiction, flash, flash fiction, hope, jones, love, nightmare, work, writing
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100 Words: Far-Fetched
They said she was ridiculous, to believe in the thing she believed in. They said men like that, with fire in their eyes, fire in their hands — they didn’t exist. They said she didn’t exist. She knew they were … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged 100 words, blue-eyed man, cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, determination, fiction, flash, flash fiction, hope, jones, love, short, writing
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, On Depression, Poetry
Tagged anger, connection, depression, dreams, fear, grief, hate, heart, hope, life, loneliness, loss, memories, memory, mental illness, misery, pain, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, writing
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Hoped
I’d hoped we could be friends. I’d hoped we could be more. Maybe you’d leave your wife. Maybe I’d leave my husband. Maybe we’d buy a little shelter together, past the burned out Walmart and maybe I’d suckle six fat … Continue reading
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Tagged hope, love, love poem, poem, poems, poetry, rejection, sadness, there's a story in there somewhere, writing
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Spirit/Flesh
Fully aware, when the stars are at their peaks, whorling in strange circles in our forbidden sky you are the meat of my existence, the flesh of it and I am the soul, the spirit of yours. You are my … Continue reading