Category: Creative writing
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Cherita: Angst
Cherita (pronounced CHAIR-rita) is a short verse that tells a story. It was created by ai li, UK poet and artist. The Cherita is: a hexastich, a 6 line narrative poem made up of 3 separate strophes. Learn more at ThotPurge. Young, bewildered monk second-guessing himself as the rains begin A dragonfly alights…
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Generation Gap
“This is where we used to play when I was a boy, Amber.” “Play what, Grampa? I didn’t think they had Bubble Witch Saga or Wi-Fi back then.” “Soccer, Amber. We physically played soccer.” ThreeLineTales
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Date Night
“See Jeff, this is why I avoid all-you-can-ingest plankton bars: everybody’s focused on stuffing themselves, nobody looks where they’re going, you never know whose tentacles are tangled-up with yours…it’s ridiculous!” “Well Margaret, if you’d made reservations at Chez Bon Bon Medusozoa like I suggested…” “Oh, so now it’s my fault?”
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Out Loud
Star-crossed lovers in perpetual orbit; the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun— a Sun that doesn’t seem to shine on us. Still, your heart beats the rhythm of mine as my soul is the other half of yours despite the spouses our spouses and children— yours, mine and not ours… Not yet. One…
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When Phil Konstantin Didn’t Interview Susan Shuman
Below is an abridged and edited (obviously) excerpt from Phil Konstantin’s interview with Stephen King. If Mr. Konstantin had interviewed me, this is how I’d have answered. I understand you don’t like to be asked why you write the kind of stories you do. Is this correct? Yes. I don’t know why I write what I write.…
aka, The Abject Muse 