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Friday, June 14, 2013

a very short story: Change of Scenery

She can't help thinking, as the great proud shining buildings go by, that life comes back to the beginning, if it lasts long enough. As a child, she was always in the back seat. Father, always in the driver's seat, and Mother, always beside him in the front passenger seat, where the view was the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

prompt: Here comes the heat...

My little split-level home faces into the sun: east through the back windows, west through the front. The lower level back is built half underground, and the front... has a big wide window facing west. So, the back downstairs room is considerably cooler than the upstairs, and even the downstairs... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

prompt: What's Magic?

Magic is a beautiful plant, sprouting from a dry little seed I pushed into the soil. It's the sudden appearance of blossoms, a sea of color where it was all green before. It's things you can eat, that grow out of the flowers, sometimes a lot, like zucchini and pumpkins. Or its just flowers with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 5, 2013

prompt: Home

What makes a place home, for you? Years ago, for me, it was the long shelf of yellow-spined National Geographics--like the one in my parent's house--that defined it for me. I might get a subscription now, and start a new shelf, as a matter of fact. When I have a shelf. And home, for me, has long... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

my prompt response

Mammoths. The last natural mammoths lived on an island, and had become a dwarf variant because their environment was so limited. They were around four feet tall at the shoulder. Elephants are among the most intelligent of Earth's species, and long-lived, if you don't figure in poachers. Perhaps... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Prompt: Bringing back the departed

It will be possible, if it isn't already, to clone back from extinction any number of creatures who once walked the earth, flew in the skies, or swam the waters. For the purposes of this prompt, I am only speaking of those who shared the world with human beings. Narrowing it down some, let's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

One of our newest bloggers, Collene, inspired this prompt

Figural poems are shaped by words and line-breaks, to make the shape of the topic. I played with this idea a few years ago, and here were my best results.? oo ah... oooh! mmm --!! * passing around a tray of goodies -- (cookies taking everyones’ drink orders, then and delivering tiny coffees in tiny... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

"Do you know what a rabbit looks like?"

"Yes, of course I do!" "Can you draw?" "Sure, I can draw." "Okay--here is paper and pencil: Draw me a rabbit." "Well... I can't actually draw one." "Then, you know a rabbit when you see one, but you don't actually know what one looks like." Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

What's on your desk?

My stuff is on a long table, and the center of it, I consider my desk. Around my laptop in the center, there are 5 betta tanks with occupants who you've seen before http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157622562626138/; camera; bookshelf with my Parabola magazines and a Gnostic Bible, as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

"Twice in my life I have wished to die.

Now I look back on each time with the certain knowledge of all that I would have missed had I gone over the water at those times." Juilene Osborne-McKnight BRIGHT SWORD OF IRELAND Where do these words take you? As a person who has lived many, many years with crippling depression and a certain... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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