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Tally Lake
Quintin Short sat comfortably by the window, watching as another layer of snow blanketed his backyard. On his lap was a book.“How can you read at a time like this?” “Christiana, when did you get here?”Quintin’s reaction, although one of surprise, was slightly subdued.“Never mind that,” she said. “I want to know how you can read at a time like this?”Quinten reached for his bookmark – an outdated coupon – that had fallen between his legs and slipped it between two pages.“If you don’t mind?” he asked, turning. After Christiana accepted the book, she left it on the countertop and sighed. “Dad, ple...
Cheating the System
He always thought of himself as clever. He had an odd sense of humor that leaned towards the dark but it amused him, if not always others, and that was, after all, what was really important wasn’t it? He would write the occasional story and poem and feel satisfied at a particular turn of phrase or description. His wife loved getting handwritten poems on special occasions and he felt he was doing his part to stick it to Hallmark and their overpriced cards. The blog began simply to give him a place to vent and rant at the irrational, the political, and the idiotic things he saw and read each day...
Lights
Ⅰ. Picture Alaskan snow and meteors that drop like baseless promises and dissolve away like morning kisses. The sky is indigo and crooked, leaning right into tomorrow, and Raphaela is tracing cold hearts of ice into the windowpane with her nails. Not the romantic ones shaped like clovers that rip into tissue paper halves, but the human hearts that quiver and bleed and only last a fragile lifetime.The stars are falling, but Raphaela isn’t wishing. She’s praying. While looking past the white expanse, her arms snake across her chest, biting into her ribs as shallow gasps slither from her mouth. ...
Soap Opera
“There you are.I've been waiting for ages. But I knew that sooner or later you would come to do the MSN www.onedoor.ccSolitaire Collection, because there’s just enough time for you to finish the five games before the episode begins... That is one of the good things about being able to watch television on your laptop, and having a smart television, so you can hop back and forth between the two, according to whether or not you are alone in the house.Am I not the clever one? I knew that you would notice the new icon, and that you’d click on it to see what it was…Why are you standing there looking like an asphy...