Posts Tagged ‘Stories’

A Quiet Rebellion

01Apr08

The Quiet Rebellion
Three times every weekday I took my coffee to the same bench. For fifteen minutes I watched the hole in the earth across the street deepen and widen. At the edge of this hole was a small low-rent hotel with the words “Unlimited Growth Increases the Divide”, in polished brass letters affixed to [...]


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The Shore Story

29Mar08

The Shore
She lies like a pale shell on the grey blanket, on the grey sand by a grey sea and sky. She is waiting, maybe, like some others here. Waiting for the tides return or for someone to speak her name on this beach filled with sun and sea polished bodies. These bodies wedged in [...]


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The Awakened Dreamer

24Mar08

The Awakened Dreamer
-a retelling of an Inuit legend
The sharp sound of the icy air meeting the vapor coolly washing from the sleeper’s mouth was all that could be heard over the emptiness of the cold, show covered tundra. It was not a crackle and was not a loud sound. It was more like a soft [...]


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Birdland

22Mar08

Birdland
I watch today. Earlier than usual. At the time between long shadows. It is cold perhaps. I watch them as they can fluff and molt in one span of darkness. So many of them flocking, but not for food, mating or the tending of eggs and small ones. They are reasonless, social and unordered. They [...]


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