Tag: stories
member name: Lavonne W.
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July 16, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Sherry McCahn was born October 31,1950. Sherry's father, Jim believed Aideen when she wrote him that her pregnancy had lasted ten months and that the doctors all said what a miracle it was. "It . . .
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February 13, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
Found a shriveled black thing
under the bed
while vacuuming today.
Gingerly picked it up.
Humph, I puffed. An apple
and all the time I thought
that sickly, sweet smell
was love.
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September 07, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
Edited version:
A long time ago before even your granmamma can remember - bugs could not fly. It's true! Even the ones with wings did not fly. This story is about some bugs with beautiful . . .
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February 29, 2008 08:20 PM EST --
A pretty much true story.
"What the hell." Squirelly said to himself, "There's nothing else to do." So he called up Jim and got out the John boat. The sun was hot, the beer . . .
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June 01, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
I hope you get well soon.
I'm enjoying the book.
I found your medical center receipt
in the middle of
the chapter about
The Jungle Goolah Boy
The spine is cracked right there . . .
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January 30, 2008 08:48 PM EST --
The day you died.
The day you died.
'The day you died' was all I could ever bring myself to type. Nothing would come out. Every time I tried my fingers would remain motionless on the . . .
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February 16, 2008 12:41 AM EST --
saw the photographer next door
leaving with a suitcase
asked him how long he'd be gone
and should I check the mail
he shook his head
she thinks I left the house last night
but I slept . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
The Chilled Air
Across my street
is a telephone pole
and beside it
is a white cross
marking the last stand
of a boy fleeing the police.
Last summer
I drove a stretch
of Highway . . .
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June 05, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
An interesting website:
http://www.red-coral.net/Amer.html
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July 03, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
At the family reunion this weekend, I want to make a big deal of the celebration for our veterans. We are having a picnic so I made them each a placemat replicating the thirteen star flag first used as . . .
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March 02, 2008 06:30 PM EST --
and a ship sinks
funny
what goes through
the mind of a tired man
who drinks
Irish whiskey
as the evening glides
hour by hour
thinks about
how bad life can be
how good life . . .
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July 03, 2008 01:42 AM EDT --
When I was a little girl, I was given a needle book to put in my very own sewing basket. I thought I was very grown up because needles were dangerous things! An auntie had made the book when . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:19 AM EST --
There's a bare spot
about three feet off the ground
on the gum tree at the wood's edge.
I can see it from the
window over the sink.
In the twilight Cervidae
scars the tree, rubs . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
Revised:
A dream of July
I was hunting
scarlet birds in a verdant wood;
each dart striking true.
Then from behind a tree,
large and unafraid,
his muscular . . .
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March 02, 2008 10:49 PM EST --
Backlit,
an S-curve silhouette
patters in the bathroom.
Jars and bottles
tapping on the counter.
Frogs peep-singing,
heard through
the window screen.
Nestled,
her match is already . . .
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July 02, 2008 04:11 PM EDT --
I like to sew. Mostly quilts and toys and doo-dads that grow in my mind and ooze out through the blood I lose in pricked fingers. I prick my fingers a lot. Never got the hang of using a thimble; I guess . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:32 AM EST --
just past Cave Springs
there's a gas station
by the looks of the stair step
facade it must have been built
sometime in the teens
the gas added later
I hear her voice
when the clerk . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:40 AM EST --
my grandson brought the Americans
to dinner and they are loud
always wanting to know things
how we buy food
they called it - groceries
I gestured to the garden
that is food I said
I don't . . .
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