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November 30, 2015

Happy Holidays (Operative Word: Happy.)

When someone chooses to use their words to share a message of joy with you and you take offense to the words rather than appreciating the message, when you slap away a hand held out in friendship because of a minor linguistic difference, you are the offensive thing.

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November 20, 2015

The Smallest Ones

In my nightmares, there are children playing in a field of tall grass, so tall that the only way I know the children are there is by the sound of their voices and the way the grass moves as they run. Then there are men, impossibly tall men, dressed all in camouflage, with guns strapped…

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November 19, 2015

Refuge.

They are laughing in the sand, their high-pitched voices crossing over and under each other and up into the sky into the clouds dirty hands reaching for each other, circling around singing songs whose words we cannot recognize but the tune is universal; nursery rhymes are all the same. They are smaller than the dogs…

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November 19, 2015

Faces.

This is how we live with our sidearms drawn our fingers free of scars and polished

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November 16, 2015

The Innkeepers

The innkeepers are waiting their flags are on display: sharp-edged stars and stripes like blood and bone

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September 28, 2015

Windows

In every window, there are shadows tiny girls with paper hair and twisted legs feet stuck out at unnatural angles pointy elbows and crooked teeth and eyes like telescopes, watching everything. They are armed with bats and chains and metal pipes they are grown to ten feet tall they are tongues untangled, mouths unclenched they…

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August 1, 2015

A Love Letter to Pat Robertson

The lights are on in your great glass house but there’s nothing there to see. Your eyes are glued to the man next door, face pressed against his window in a gruesome caricature, bulging against the panes, lashes wet with lust and your palms nailed tight to the cross you wear like a brace to…

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July 20, 2015

Scene from a Dive Bar

The whores are dancing in sensible shoes to the beat of the songs that they loved in their youth Once upon a time, they might have been pretty. Open-mouthed, scanning the room, looking for something they’ve lost they are better loved than all of us they are tired and want to go home.

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April 19, 2015

UnderDog Bikes in Roanoke, VA

A couple weeks ago, my husband and I took Thing One (so named because he arrived on the scene two minutes before his brother, Thing Two, and I don’t use their real names on here) up to Roanoke, VA for a quick overnight trip. It can be tough to find things to do with Thing…

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January 6, 2015

Something About Hookers

I think I might be catching some sort of disease My back hurts more than it should. I want my money back this isn’t what I asked for It costs more than I thought it would I’ve nothing left to give. Plastic bottles all lined up, thoughts in one personality in another dreams flushed down…

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April Fox

Category: Uncategorized

Happy Holidays (Operative Word: Happy.)

Faces.

Windows

A Love Letter to Pat Robertson

Scene from a Dive Bar

UnderDog Bikes in Roanoke, VA

Something About Hookers