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he stripped down
and threw his clothes
in a plot of mulch
and marigolds
and when he took them
again, they smelled
of rusty petals,
of rich, wooden night,
making him pause
and inhale with his nose
as he stood by the pond,
in the moonlight,
the water on his skin
dripping into the mulch
where the orangish blooms
of the marigolds grew.
and threw his clothes
in a plot of mulch
and marigolds
and when he took them
again, they smelled
of rusty petals,
of rich, wooden night,
making him pause
and inhale with his nose
as he stood by the pond,
in the moonlight,
the water on his skin
dripping into the mulch
where the orangish blooms
of the marigolds grew.
Literature
6 word story
She swallowed the pills again, hoping.
Literature
Suffocate
“I didn’t want him,” she says. “I wanted something, something I saw in the eyes of Libby, Sam, Sandi, and Agnes. Something that would have made our new world, our safe world, a home. Children were a part of that world and so I found myself a child. Perhaps, I thought, I would love him and everything would fall into place. Perhaps with a child I could be content with safety, and normality, and a world without knives taped on mop heads.” A cold smile. “I still catch myself thinking that. I still think that maybe tomorrow will be the day where I can fall asleep with the lights on.”
Carmen’s featur
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Ice Cream
Everyone writes poems about emotions and fears
And one day I said, "I want to write a poem about
Ice cream."
About Dilly Bars on the drive from Tucson to Phoenix
The Dairy Queen across the highway from the ostrich farm
With the dust devil's raging by
About soft serve cones at the Desert Museum
Always Twist. Never Vanilla.
On all those hot Saturday afternoons
Watching mountain goats sleep in the shade
A poem about Friday nights after pizza
A different flavor every time
And eating straight from the carton at Dad's
While netflix plays on the wii
And sitting on the rooftop watching the stars
Ice cream bar in hand
About the store by Big Lake
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quickie. will work a little more seriously on my stuffs tomorrow.
also, it's apparently flash fiction month? BAHHHHH-- perhaps i'll go ahead and write one or two anyway, even if i've already missed the first few days.
quickie. will work a little more seriously on my stuffs tomorrow.
also, it's apparently flash fiction month? BAHHHHH-- perhaps i'll go ahead and write one or two anyway, even if i've already missed the first few days.
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You'd think he'd be more careful about what gets on his clothes.
I've been participating in FFM. You can probably tell from the sudden influx of stories from me and that I haven't been commenting. It's good fun though.
I've been participating in FFM. You can probably tell from the sudden influx of stories from me and that I haven't been commenting. It's good fun though.