Ergo, the Ogre
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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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Bobby and Beyond
This week on Song Lyric Sunday (SLS) Jim has asked us to find a song that features nautical terms, words connected with ships, sailing, sailors, maritime or navigation. I’ve chosen “Beyond the Sea” by Bobby Darin. According to Wikipedia, “Beyond the Sea” is the English-language version of the French song “La Mer” by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby…
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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
Got any book recommendations?
aka, The Abject Muse 