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062/100 aka 202/365

Posted on July 21, 2011 by susan

RECOGNITION Word Count: 327 It doesn’t look like you and yet it does. I can’t be sure. It’s been a few years. The way you’re strutting to the table, your hand just lightly at her back, steering her direction, cutting … Continue reading →

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061/100 aka 201/365

Posted on July 20, 2011 by susan

FEATHERS AND RAINCOATS   Word Count: 499 My task for the week was to find a pink feather. My quests start on a Sunday and end at midnight on Friday. Saturday I rest, like the Lord. Or no, that was … Continue reading →

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060/100 aka 200/365

Posted on July 19, 2011 by susan

SCARS Word Count: 270 I traced the scars down your back, long paths deepened by the dim streetlights that sieved through the curtains. You shivered away from my fingertips but said nothing. I thought I knew enough not to ask … Continue reading →

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059/100 aka 199/365

Posted on July 18, 2011 by susan

BOUNDARIES AND LAWS AND ALL THAT KIND OF SHIT   Word Count: 293 The hummingbird hones in on the feeder. A bee bumbles its way around the faces of New Guinea Impatience, each hair picking up pollen like a new … Continue reading →

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058/100 aka 198/365

Posted on July 18, 2011 by susan

LOVE LETTERS   Word Count: 290 There it is, I see it just up ahead, a bright burst of color on a colorless back road that winds and curves too slow for its 35 mph speed limit and too fast … Continue reading →

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057/100 aka 197/365

Posted on July 18, 2011 by susan

INDIVIDUAL Word Count: 309 The day starts with the sun rising in the east, breaking into my room through the blinds on the window, articulating each slat as a separate entity yet part of the whole. I too, am an … Continue reading →

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056/100 aka 196/365

Posted on July 15, 2011 by susan

DREAM SCHEMES   Word Count: 260 When I was little I dreamed of being a ballerina, like the ones I saw on TV sometimes before my father grumbled and changed channels to football or baseball or whatever sport was in … Continue reading →

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055/100 aka 195/365

Posted on July 14, 2011 by susan

PERSPECTIVE 2 Word Count: 101 Drifting clouds I catch on my fingers, twirl them around and eat them like sweet cotton candy. I wait for the noon sun to melt roads into chocolate, the special dark kind that I love. … Continue reading →

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054/100 aka 194/365

Posted on July 14, 2011 by susan

RECALCULATING Word Count: 466 After it happened we all stood around and asked the inevitable What? Jessie said it was karma and Roxanne said it was the way the sun hit the frog pond at twelve noon that day. I … Continue reading →

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053/100 aka 193/365

Posted on July 14, 2011 by susan

MOVEMENT Word Count: 220 The slow morning air brushes my neck like a lover. Or a dog gnawing a bone, which is one and the same if you think about it, reaching the rich core of marrow the goal. I … Continue reading →

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