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October 13, 2009 04:01 PM EDT --
Crit Welcome! I wrote this piece today just for this Tuesday's Child challenge. Help me make it better!
Autumn had fully descended upon my little town of Dead Cricket, Missouri. . . .
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March 25, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
How many of you have been approached by Becky E. Colgate Smile to be connected as her "friend"?
I generally look at members who want to connect with me, and I was not amused.
Seems . . .
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October 29, 2009 04:55 PM EDT --
Decomposition
Fragmentation
The man stares back, no hiding the grizzled face Start of crow's feet there, a smile line turned frown line there Is asked pointedly, "Do you feel all is . . .
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March 27, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
No, not Christmas. By the time March rolls around, I'm half insane. Missouri just isn't good to ride much in the wintertime anyway. This season, we had snow and ice so often, . . .
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April 01, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
In a story I wrote a while ago, Incident at the Gully Wash Cafe , the protagonist, Biker Dan, finds himself faced with an interesting challenge. Poet, the Gully Wash Cafe's proprietor . . .
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April 14, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Wednesday, November 24: I think my first hint that something had changed was the Breaking News labels on television. I wasn't really watching TV, but it was on and the characteristic . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:53 PM EST --
I drift between these two states
At once alive and at once dead
Alive, . . .
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August 13, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Ugh. I want a do-over for this morning. In fact, I want to roll back to early Sunday night, and then skip today all together.
My Sunday evening ended as normal, but I had heard about the Pleiades . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
My parents -- now retired -- decided recently that they would make the journey from Washington, DC to St. Louis to visit with me and their grandkids. They normally fly, but with the extra time on . . .
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October 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Blank white canvas with no expectations
Smooth cloth grain, thirsty to absorb pigment
Catching light and reflecting back all, indiscriminately
Dip a putty knife into a pool of pigment, thick . . .
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October 18, 2008 01:04 AM EDT --
Did you ever think in your wildest dreams
That you would put fun after work?
Play after responsibility?
That a drink with friends would be with one eye on . . .
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August 27, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
I miss Frank Herbert.
From my earliest memories, various versions of his original novel, Dune were on the spinning paperback carousel at the library. The original cover art had this sandy landscape with . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:32 PM EDT --
The wizened black man climbs carefully up the stairs of the bus. A young boy, no more than 10 years old follows him closely, holding his small suitcase and the old man's hat. Family . . .
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October 06, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, I suggested that writers looking for critique to improve their work should ask for it. This was a common sense recommendation, but it left a number of well-meaning would-be . . .
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September 22, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
Have you posted something to Gather, only to have lots of people pat you on the back, but give you no constructive criticism? Even with that glaring typo in the first line?
Or, have you posted . . .
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June 16, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
Beneath the ash sky, trees look like dry bones
Reaching up to take hold of a sky like old stone
A stiff breeze was blowing, first out from the west
Then from the north, it continued its quest
Across . . .
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September 15, 2009 12:08 PM EDT --
This piece is inspired by the King Crimson song "Satori in Tangier"
Hot stink of livestock, cooking grease and excrement Brutal sun pushing down like an artifact of gravity Shouts and curses, jingling . . .
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October 13, 2009 02:40 PM EDT --
With Halloween fast approaching, the leaves changing color, and the wind taking on Fall characteristics, I get nostalgic for those carefree days of my youth. The smell of cheap vinyl masks, . . .
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October 20, 2009 11:47 AM EDT --
Greetings Gather Writing Essential Members!
We had good (but not great) participation with last week's Halloween prompts, but I'm delighted by the work turned in by our fellow Gatherers. . . .
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November 06, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
A couple of Gatherers asked about the symbols used in the Native American rock art I received as prize for Birdie Jaworski's contest a while back.
I dug into the internet and found enough . . .
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