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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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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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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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March 03, 2009 07:59 PM EST --
The door slammed shut behind Winston as he entered his apartment. Without the lights on, he could smell the trash decaying like dead beach creatures in the kitchen can. He sighed and decided . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 12, 2009 08:58 PM EDT --
The skies opened up as soon as Winston left the terminal, soaking him instantly to the skin. Puddles forming on the sidewalk splashing his trousers as he slogged through to the parking garage. . . .
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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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September 15, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
M onday's child is fair of face,
T uesday's child is full of grace,
W ednesday's child is full of woe,
T hursday's child has far to go,
F riday's child is . . .
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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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May 25, 2006 09:29 AM EDT --
I'm sure many of us have favorite songs, songs that evoke deep meaning for us, or just simply make us want to dance.
But, what about that song that is SO GOOD that you just wished that it had come . . .
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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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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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