Category: Fiction
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Shapeshifter
So sweetly, your gentle love wound its way around my heart like delicate passionflower tendrils. O, but soon it transformed into a strangling kudzu vine: clinging, binding, suffocating, and finally withering my almost-beating heart — leaving a silent screaming wound. You and your vicious love.
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Room For Rent
Last month’s editorial page lay rumpled on my floor. Its letters graying and damp-wrinkled, edges curling upward. Broken shells that once held sunflower seeds piled in one corner and a plastic mirror with a silenced bell in the other. How that bell drove me crazy with its incessant, cheap-metal jingle! In retrospect, it wasn’t really…
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Twisted Fate
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This piece was originally posted for Photo Challenge Day over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie! During the bus ride home, Sonya savored the days’ events in her mind’s eye. She still couldn’t believe it actually happened. And it was sweeter, better, and…yummier… than she’d ever imagined. What made it even more extraordinary was…
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Art Appreciation
Tamara de Lempicka self portrait
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The Best of the Best: E.C. Was Here
It’s Sunday again, which means it’s time for Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday. This week we are to choose an artist who has won the Brit Award for and Outstanding Contribution to Music. I’ve chosen Eric Clapton who was the recipient of the BRIT Award in 1987. The songs Sunshine of your Love, (Cream), Layla…
aka, The Abject Muse 