Insert Pen Name Here 's published ficlets
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Cover it (the apology challenge)
This is just to say
that saying
doesn’t cover it
that nothing
will ever cover it
That I’ve messed it up
so big time
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Run
Pounding, thumping
slapping downPanting, feel you’re
gonna drownCan’t get air
into your lungsNever
Gonna
Give it upDo…
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Nature's Tie
it’s never really written
never simply memorized
never actually thought of
but not forgotten to the wiseit’s the tiny glint…
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Fallen Treasures
See the fallen treasure
see the once in splendor hall
taste the soured feast
and wonder
was it ever there at allFeel the ro…
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They come
With pitter, patter,
slide and thump
hop and flop and shiver,With slither, slather,
shuffle, sneak
and scoot and walk and w… -
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Secret
Have you ever had a secret?
One that smolders, burns, fights inside of you.
It twists your insides up and unwinds them like … -
Bigger
Maybe the reason
I feel so heavy
isI was supposed to be bigger
as wide as the sky
spread out like space
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There's never REALLY silence
There’s never REALLY silence.
Always, there’s that buzz, hum, noise in your head.
I thought it was the air conditioning-
I tu… -
When life gives you lemons, don't squeeze the juice in your eyes!
“Why does she have to get sick NOW? With Mom and Dad on vacation, I’m her only relative!” Sharon grumbled, shoving her hands …
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Silence (64k challenge)
After 16 years of silence, I’ve forgotten how to say I love you.
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A Slightly Different First-day-of-School Story
How many stories start on the first day of school? Far too many. “As Julie waited for the bus, she twisted a strand of pale b…
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Akheta (1) It's not our business
Akheta came in late that day, I remember. The moon was already in the sky and the light was fading when she came in. Her drap…
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A Challenge!
A challenge!
Give us a list of a selection of the things you have looked up (or been linked to by a previous article) on wi…
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Another Random Portrait of My Current Activities
Another Random Portrait of My Current Activities
The girl sighed and shifted in her chair. Her head tilted slowly as she typ…
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Blackout
I’m used to them now, I told myself, but my hand trembled as it touched the match to the wick. These blackouts have been happ…
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Early morning musings
The icy ground crunced under my boots. I walked with my head up and my lungs full of the crisp, sharp cold of the dawn. I bre…
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Matters
What is one drop of water
into a great sea-what is one more grain of rice
added to a bushel-what is one more second of ti…
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Poem
On that cold, dark night
When I finally knew the fright
Of a cold, lost child
Eating scraps and running wildOn that cold, d…
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Possibilities (14)
“Yeah.” I sighed. We fell silent, contemplating the strange occurrences of the day. The whole thing was surreal- things like …
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