August 2010
48 posts
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Students
by Caitlin
The students giggled. Although they are in secoundary school they act like tantrum-prone toddlers. They seem happy and joyful. But looks can be deciveing. The heavy workload, high expectations. Who can survive? High school is like a game of survivor. Why can’t we be kids again?
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beautiful
by flyingandfalling
Beautiful. When I was young I saw beauty in the stardust sprinkled across the sky like tiny grains of sugar, sticking on my tongue and melting away the bitter coffee-stains discoloring my corners. Back then beauty was something far away and unattainable, something similar to being hopeful and having friends without whispers and sun without burns and poetry without rhymes,...
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Encounter 2: What just happened?
by mariartemis
Mari freaked out. Mari majorly freaked out. What the hell just happened?! She thought. Her hand just mystically went through the battered guys back. Her heart was definitely racing now. This was definitely not normal. Wait a minute, what was normal again? Mari wondered to herself.
“Jason!” She yelled out for him. Jason came running over to her. Luckily, the road that Mari lived...
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A Stroll Through Armageddon
by Zac Dredge
The sea shall rise
And the Earth will crumble,
Yet I’ll never give up
And onwards I’ll stumble.
The sun soon dims,
The world grows cold
Yet on I will stride
Afraid but bold.
All the people are gone,
No life still remains
Except for myself,
And all of my pains.
The mountains spit ash,
Brimstone and fire,
and to walk forward
is my only desire.
No hope of a...
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1789
by wiredwriters
One man speaks of a revolution,
Wild eyes alight.
A lady tells of insurrection;
Ready to fight.
Pull out the guillotine,
Bring out your knives.
Think like the French once did,
Ready your lives.
Tell everyone you know-
coup d’etate!
Hear all the chanting voices:
Now is combat.
Look, now, here they come,
Waving the flag.
Anarchy! Says this generation,
...
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shadows.
by chomplex
A woman walking home from work
She’s tired from the day
A shadow follows from behind
She hurries on her way
The short-cut that she took
Is now a deep regret
She tries pretending she is safe
The shadow she forgets
A quiet man, who walks his dog
At night when we’re asleep
Most women run, they seem to shun
The ghost that haunts the street
He’s never harmed a...
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The Look
by vaguelyunique
She looked me in the eye and told me she had a secret.
She giggled and ran away.
She returned and said, “I love you more than all this.”
She tripped over her own feet.
I looked into her tombstone eyes and knew it was a lie.
I said nothing.
We giggled and ran away, together.
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Clock
by duchaine
A clock ticks on the wall, power from its batteries driving its hands in endless circles. As the hands spin a classroom of students look on, sitting tense in their seats. The teacher stands watching the clock. Nobody speaks, nobody hears, everyone watches the clock as words fly worthlessly around them unspoken and unheard. As they sit, a wolf the size of a volts wagon passes in...
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writing while standing up
by wakemeafter
He was silent for a few seconds, after I had caught his lie. The neck tie is ugly, with patterns too wild to be allowed on frail accountants. Waiters walk behind him with bottles of wine that remind me of my own glass. I sip on it, watching his brown eyes dart from me to my girlfriend, Sophia.
“Martin meant his father’s property, he is looking for his own further down the...
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Three Days
by thisispartofthewhole
“Some suicides are never recorded.”
Maybe because no one’s interested, she thought and clicked to the next. “There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out…”
No, that’s not right. Not the one.
She clicked and clicked and clicked, looking for something. What? She wasn’t exactly sure. She’d know it when she saw it. But he’d like Bukowski. He’d like that she liked...
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New York
by Dan Rein
New York; a city ruled by skyscrapers its people busy in their own lives and work. Everyday was peaceful and calm and the welcoming face of the Statue of Liberty greeted the ships coming into the harbor.
But today the city was in chaos. It’s once loyal law-abiding citizens were now running mad, trying to get out of the city anyway they could. Some found this as an opportunity to rob...
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Sunday Morning
by Saba V
I awoke at dawn with limbs unbound, and
It was just me, and you, and
Enough heart to overflow the kitchen sink -
A smile fresh as steaming tea, laughter sprouting alfafa-spry
From our palms as we navigated
The bottoms of our glasses,
Each other’s mouths,
The streets with their Christmas lights all strung up
In autumn: the best expressions of love
Are kitsch in their milky joy....
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Whispering Ghosts
by Leigh
When you start a story off with a question, it draws the reader in, it hooks their attention and it pushes them to keep reading so to say. Isn’t that what your teacher tells you? When you’re writing a paper, the teacher tells you to start the paragraph off with a quote or a question right? What if I started this story with both? A quote and a question.
The question is simple,...
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Reporting It
by inwhichemilytriestowrite
I am in the backseat. I am going to the police station. I am ready to file a report.
I am in a cold plastic chair. I am sitting at the police station. I am about to file a report.
I am in a room with a desk and a chair and a police officer. I have filed a report. I am crying.
And now they’re talking about the hospital. Getting another exam, for evidence. And I’m...
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Vacation Memories
by vesper7
Tourists in their careful plush sweaters loom near the edge, where they capture seafoam and ragged rocks in cameras and telephoto lens. Vacation memories or digital dead weights slung near dead white seashell strings that decorate their skin. It’s up to you how close to get, but I hold you back against images of your head split on the rocks below. It can’t happen like that. My fists...
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Catatonic
by thatonelesbian
There are words strapped to my ankles, as the bed leans forward to catch my mind and save it from my shivering body. It is summer, but somehow, impulse outweighs climate, tonight. These words are foreigners, even to themselves: strangers dwelling in their own bodies. I can’t hear anything clearly; nothing definite so that I can memorize and define. I faintly make out “drive” but...
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Change
by inspiredbyblankpages
I wish things were different
That I wouldn’t be the only one
Not understanding what everyone’s saying
Because I think on a deeper level.
I wish I could have an intelligent conversation with someone
Without being regarded as strange
Because I have a vast vocabulary.
I wish kind people were easier to find
So I wouldn’t always get stuck in dead-end...
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Metal Pot
by iamreallyalibra
I took a metal pot outside today. Sometimes, the weather does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It rains sometimes exactly the night that you need it to. Tonight, I need it to rain. One year later, one year after all the things I thought were constant turned into the things that would never be the same, one year later and I’m burning all the pictures of you.
I’m not...
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Untitled
by raggedymadness
I’ll admit it, openly and without shame. I’m hunting for something. Hunting for that occupation— of the body or the mind— that completes the circuit and floods my soul with light. And in the meanwhile, I hang on to moments like these…
I didn’t know you smoked. I guess I wasn’t surprised, knowing your past, but I guess I was naieve in assuming it was all in your past. So when...
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cliffs
by spindrift
i cling like wet sheets to legs of a statue in the sea
i sing like a siren too high from the strike
it disturbs me, to think i’m still a fish. hooked like a whale on a stake, but you miss. and i can’t, but i love the hurt, and i bathe in this dirt, and still happen to flirt, with temptation and desire.
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crows
by flyingandfalling
I always thought that crows were ugly, with their dirty wings and the way they scattered their feathers along the sidewalk as if leaving parts of themselves behind so that even when their insides rotted beneath car tires and fell through the sky like harmless army missiles their story would remain, printed on shiny black feathers that children weren’t allowed to touch because...
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Black and Blue
by jessehurt
The willow weeping, drenched in rain, illuminated under the streetlight, as Will watched the storm from his bedroom window. If you looked at the bottom of his left bed post you would find 364 tallies, marking each day for the past eleven months and 29 days. If you wait ten more minutes, you will find 365.
Will’s clock read 3:47 A.M. He watched it intently as the hands moved in...
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A NEW LIFE!
by Dan Rein
Howls pierce the night. Inside the cabin, Michael sits up from his cold bed. No sleep for him tonight. He walks up to the window. He opens the blinds. It’s almost peaceful outside. Almost.
Suddenly a shape hopped into the clearing. Michael jolted back. As he looked again he saw it was just a kangaroo.
Some holiday in the mountains.
The kangaroo began to eat the grass. A few minutes...
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The Curious Traveller
by Ashley Mahoney
He didn’t have a name. It was lost long ago on the dirt tracks and highways he travelled.
When he turned up in the small town Edlex, the townsfolk were watchful, their beady eyes following his steady progress along the grassy park. They watched everything he did, judging him based on what he was and how he lived. Not that the Traveller minded much. He didn’t think about...
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Dali
by Mayur Pathak
‘Dali’ was a very unusual name for a fairly good looking young girl. But then that was her name and it suited her pretty much. She was indeed a ‘Dali’ or a branch extended out of a tree of cheerfulness. She looked surprisingly young and very sweet for a maid. In fact, when Mangesh saw her for the first time, he had dismissed her and sent her back, saying she was too young. It took...
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A Wake Up Fall
by Allie R. Barrows
Jerry Dennell felt the old part of his life slip away as the falling man’s fingers started to loosen in his grasp.
“Come on, buddy! Think of your wife! Your kids!” Jerry grunted as he tried to heave the bulky body from over the edge, but only lost a few more centimeters of his grip as a reward.
Jerry’s already clammy palms were now sweating even more from the exertion of trying...
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In Repair
by Melanie
Cale woke up to the sound of the old screen door slamming shut. His eyes snapped open and his right hand flew out to touch the place on Anna’s side of the bed where the sheets were ruffled and still warm. He closed his fist around the thin blankets and inhaled slowly, closing his eyes again as his chest swelled before letting all his air out in a quiet groan, heaving himself...
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"Tell me you love me a million times."
by lenorasol
And there it was. This look on your face like you were going to jump off the bridge and hit that ice cold water, letting your face feel what it’s like when your heart breaks. Let your body disperse, I say. You want to be a part of that current that’s taking everyone around you into something called happiness. And why not? Why not be new inside of these rapids? Why not find something...
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Request: The Other Me.
by starsfadeblue
The dream is always the same. I’m standing behind a two way mirror, looking into a room that I guess used to painted red but all the paint is peeling off the walls. The room is split in two, and there are two versions of me on either side of a dividing wall that’s painted a dull grey colour. In one half of the room there’s a crowd of people, you’re there. And so is she. Though I...
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Serenity
by jessehurt
A single tear dropped into the ocean from the cheek of a boy, who was no more than seventeen years of age. The boy had been raised on this shoreline and knew nothing else. He came from a family that had once thrived, but now they had faded into lost and drifting souls. His mother was a waitress, and was rarely home. His sister had left for the east coast, seeking a new life. His...
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The Last Gentleman
by Rory Magill
The explosion brought Jim Peters upright in bed. He sat there, leaning back on the heels of his hands, blinking stupidly at the wall. His vision cleared and he looked down at Myra, just stirring beside him. Myra opened her eyes.
Jim said, “Did you feel that?”
Myra yawned. “I thought I was dreaming. It was an explosion or something, wasn’t it?”
Jim’s lips set grimly. After...
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Arco (Bowed)
by Tansy Gardam
“Southwell Minster really would be the most beautiful place to die.”
The resonating acoustics carry my voice to where she is sitting on a pew near the front of the church. Her delicate neck twists, her long shimmering hair moving with millisecond delay, her face disapproving.
“You shouldn’t say such things Oscar,” she admonishes, but her voice is far from harsh. Her voice could...
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The Dance
by PM Rogers
The cattle were near the grove. Some stood, some reclined in the grass.
Eli opened the gate, walked to the bale, grabbed the scythe and swung it in the air, remembering the weight. He walked towards the cows and heifers. He dragged the scythe behind him in the dirt, holding the top of the handle, and when he reached the long shadows from the trees he heard a voice calling.
He...
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Preparing
by randomnessofthemind
Is it really morning? Is it really this morning? I brace myself for the sun to blind me as soon as I open my eyes. That same sun had begun to brighten the sky by the time I finally fell asleep, so it isn’t a wonder that I feel so tired. I had been so anxious last night, with too many thoughts battling each other in my mind. It’s time to get up, but I cling to my white...
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Sometimes real life is better than books
by summerssilhouette
I roll over. Press my mouth to his ear. “Hi,” I whisper. He licks his lips. That always sounds gross in my head when I read it, He licks his lips, like the guy is some pedophile and he’s got a girl in sight, or he’s is about to eat a Big Mac, or I don’t know. It’s never sexy in my head. But God, it’s sexy now. You wait until you can hear it, see it. If it ever happens to you,...
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Flood
by thepathofleastresistance
An awkward silence filled the air of the Mulburn Tavern as soon as the question left the boys lips. He was not one of the regulars and so couldn’t hope to have known such an innocent question could stir such emotions in Joe Murray. But despite the time that had passed since he moved here from New Hampshire in his mind the reasons he left were still raw as a...
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Here comes the sun.
by jennitran
She drove me home last night. A soft mellow brightness was generously making its way through the cracks in the Venetian blinds, surrounding the bed with a gentle glow. Feeling the warmth, I sleepily opened my eyes. There you were, still lost in a world of dreams. Lying on my side, I watched, almost hypnotised by the slight motion of your chest moving up and down with each breath of...
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Say you don't want it.
by jennitran
There was no going back now. This was it. He would be her first time lover. It wasn’t even special nor was it magical, it was far from how she had pictured the way it would span out. It was not romantic in any sense. He just chose an insignificant day. It was cold and raining, the weather prevented them from leaving. She felt like he had planned this. The state of weather had never...
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Green Grass
by talia phillips (Rough Draft)
Dani awoke with a gasp to the thundering sound of a knock at the front door. As she approached the door two things crossed her mind. First off, the person knocking was clearly an idiot, it was a hard door, that kind of banging was sure to leave a bruise, besides, there was a glowing door bell right there off to the side. The second thought was more profound; she...
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Love like winter
by theresnogettingover
To you, for the last time…
“Together they escaped the fate”
She exhales vanilla lace, I barely dreamt her yesterday Read the lines in the mirror through the lipstick trace: “Por Siempre.”
They say the day they met was the day it started snowing. Sign of a one-month-early winter, snowflakes gently fell and formed heaps of white snow over the streets. The...
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For Leslie
by summerssilhouette
in a dream i had i saw her face her green eyes made of grass she was white like milk soft like silk and she slipped through my fingers between my eyelids i lost her and i found her on the street in a window pink mouth laughing feet dancing across the floor brown hair swinging legs swaying like graceful shards of glass so pale and smooth delicate and beautiful she was a...
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My Brother, the Alien Lord
by Ashley Mahoney
I stood outside the door to the bathroom and noticed that my brother wasn’t there. Normally he’d be sitting on the toilet in his dinosaur pyjamas but not today.
I jumped down the stairs and ran into the kitchen. I called for my brother.
‘Samuel!’
I ran back up the stairs and into his room. No sign of the little terror. I couldn’t believe it. Mum and...
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Raqeeb
by Mayur Pathak
Late July afternoon makes it the sweetest spot in Nainital. But not for Mahi. A wait for half and hour at the ‘other’ side of the lake was troublesome. There were these occasional visitors passing by on the walk way. And there was this threat of some one known spotting her around this cozy place and letting her father know about it. Moreover it was not only about some one spotting...
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The Caretakers
by Jack Heath
It’s so cold.
Eve can feel the synthetic oil getting thick inside her veins, the electrical pulses fading as they spark along the silver coils in her chassis. Power has long since stopped flowing from the wall socket, but she’s still plugged in. It would cost precious energy to move.
The worklights have died, plunging the corridors and terminals of the Ark into...
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Pushing Buttons
by eaaiaaa
The shadow of a man exits Lenora’s apartment like a spirit leaving a body after an exorcism. When the shadow has evaporated Lenora closes the heavy door without a sound and hobbles into the airless apartment where she is greeted with empty bottles of rum and vodka in the living room.
She takes with her what she can manage into the kitchen, four sticky glasses in each hand. Dragging her...
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Brothers Reunited
by Dan Rein
Sam cursed as he listened to his ipod. He hated walking home with a heavy bag. He turned his ipod off and suddenly heard someone calling his name.
Sam turned to see a figure far away running towards him, waving something. He recognized the figure immediately, it was hard not. At 6 foot tall and jacked up with muscles, it was his best friend, Jack Salmons.
‘You walk fast for...
July 2010
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Gate House
by Leigh
11:09pm Life #48 gate house
The moon was full, the sky was clear, the wind was blowing hard swaying the trees like they were made of anything but wood. How can air bend something so strong? So sturdy? I’ve never understood it, like I’ve never understood how airplanes stay in the air or how light is the fastest thing the world has...
