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042/100 aka 182/365

Posted on July 2, 2011 by susan

CHE Word Count: 362 She once shaved her head and renamed herself “Che.” They threw her out of Sociology for boisterous behavior. The last time she started with a cry for revolt from the top of the desk. Some joined … Continue reading →

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041/100 aka 181/365

Posted on July 1, 2011 by susan

BLACK AND WHITE Word Count: 211 You see the boardwalk leading to land. I see the cracks, the water splashing and hungry beneath us. You point out the stars in their assigned constellations and know them by name. You see … Continue reading →

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40/100 aka 180/365

Posted on June 29, 2011 by susan

PASSING Word Count: 228 The rooster cracks open the dawn for the crows to fly through. Their gravelly caws like a blunt knife serrating the sky into clouds. The sparrows have fled the nest and I’ve missed their leaving; another … Continue reading →

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039/100 aka 179/365

Posted on June 28, 2011 by susan

FIRE Word Count: 191 Sometimes it is more than I think I can handle and I need to turn down the flames. The dogs who need homes, the children with flies flickering their eyelids, the washed away homes that flow … Continue reading →

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038/100 aka 178/365

Posted on June 27, 2011 by susan

EYE OF THE HORSE Word Count: 367 In the eye of the horse she saw herself as a thin golden princess, a waif wrapped in a butterfly wing dress with rose petal sleeves. In the mirror she herself was a … Continue reading →

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037/100 aka 177/365

Posted on June 27, 2011 by susan

MENSES Word Count: 430 On Wednesday she went to the mall, giving in to her natural instinct to follow the light. She saw a mother with too many children, a bevy of nuns, a flotilla of teenagers with purple-pink hair … Continue reading →

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036/100 aka 176/365

Posted on June 25, 2011 by susan

CHANGE OF HABITS Word Count: 361 He was just an old man who liked children, that’s all. Caught up in the witch hunts of the eighties. “I know you didn’t,” said his wife, Mary, “I know you couldn’t,” and she … Continue reading →

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035/100 aka 175/365

Posted on June 24, 2011 by susan

SCARECROWS AND STRAWMEN Word Count: 539 From the window over the kitchen sink he watched her and his heart sank, settling like a stone skipped over a pond. He felt the surface ripples circling outward to the edges of his … Continue reading →

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034/100 aka 174/365

Posted on June 23, 2011 by susan

LUNA MOTH Word Count: 444 She dreamed of having wings, though that is not unusual her psychiatrist said. “People who have an extraordinary fear, real or at least real to them, tend to dream of escape from the thing or … Continue reading →

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033/100 aka 173/365

Posted on June 22, 2011 by susan

KNOCKOUT Word Count: 444 Two days after she held a pillow over her infant granddaughter’s face as she was sleeping, Edna Waters tied a cement block to her ankle and drowned in the pond behind her house. I agree it … Continue reading →

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