Tag: writings
group name: twowordchallenge
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February 02, 2006 12:04 AM EST --
I made myself a promise tonight. I will put away this year's holiday memories in a bottle wrapped in rose-colored cellophane, a red bow around its neck.
Through the bottle with miniature . . . more
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February 13, 2006 08:07 AM EST --
It was the beeping that awakened him. He always hated beeping. Why did they make alarm clocks that beeped? It always got him off to a rotten start to the day.
Wait! He didn't have an alarm clock. . . . more
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February 13, 2006 12:11 PM EST --
Doctor, it's just a game. We choose someone who will get the rush and we press her against a wall and then we use a bag, a tie, a belt, or even a scarf and tie it around her neck. And then we choke . . . more
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February 02, 2006 12:17 AM EST --
~ I promise ~
Two words spoken
One heart broken
But they're silent birds
Those empty words . . .
Rents I can't mend
Cash that won't spend
~ Unrequited love ~ . . . more
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February 13, 2006 07:20 PM EST --
She knew she was dreaming. She wanted to dream, wanted awareness in the night. He kept coming to her as she slept, rendezvoused with her on some astral plane, and she was desperate to learn the control . . . more
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February 13, 2006 04:17 PM EST --
Despite research and debate, I have not formed solid opinions on a couple of social issues. I see valid points on both sides. . . . more
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February 14, 2006 12:24 PM EST --
Fuzzy edges… I can not see
Everything is blurry in front of me
Turn on the lamp to make it lighter
See if it helps to make it brighter
I lean in… then lean back
Trying . . . more
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February 16, 2006 10:22 AM EST --
People used to call my great aunt Polly "Crazy Polly." She wasn't really crazy. People just called her that because they thought she had the sight. Nobody ever said that before her husband . . . more
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February 24, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
The Valley's Fastest Indian
George Corneliussen
The year was 1967, and all my buddies were driving brand new Honda 50cc and Honda 90cc motorcycles. I would have loved to have a Honda myself, 50cc . . . more
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February 22, 2006 07:49 PM EST --
Note: My oldest son, Jeremy was the inspiration for this story. It's his "round head" that bounces just above the bed at the end. The story was originally written in much shorter . . . more
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March 07, 2006 10:16 AM EST --
Keys To The Highway: The Ultimate Road Guitar
George Corneliussen
In the years between 1976 and the summer of 1979, I pretty much lived on the road in my capacity as "monitor mixer" for the . . . more
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February 14, 2006 09:29 PM EST --
I'm a terrific con man. I know all the right things to say and when, and I can change my cadence to fit any situation. By the time I'm done, my mark is done for. I can lie and justify to my mark . . . more
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February 14, 2006 06:20 PM EST --
How strange it is
to suddenly realize gravity is winning
as, eventually, I guess it always does.
down
down
What goes up, must come down
I think on my way to . . . more
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March 28, 2006 07:29 AM EST --
I had another of my suitcase dreams the other night. Looking back through my dream journal, I can see how they are evolving. That's a good thing, I guess!
The dream always involves packing, of course. . . . more
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April 11, 2006 10:18 AM EDT --
One at a time they are pushed up the entrance ramp. Some hesitate as they enter, stuttering to catch; others peel off and roar their way around the track. They circle the tiny quarter-mile oval as they . . . more
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April 13, 2006 06:36 AM EDT --
Piano Stories - Episode Two : The Rock & Roll Baldwin
George Corneliussen
Unless you are a piano technician or a piano player, chances are you do not know that the original Baldwin Piano Company, . . . more
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March 10, 2006 09:39 AM EST --
pissed-off:( to be so angered by an event that a response in oppositon to it is produced )
Ex.:He was so pissed-off by the television program he saw about body parts stolen from funeral homes that he . . . more
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April 22, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
I remembered this incident while writing about my work as a mechanic at a truckstop. I was very blonde at that time, when I'd kept my hard hat on and didn't have streaks of motor oil running through . . . more
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February 17, 2006 01:28 AM EST --
Hunger and the lack of sleep had finally overcome me. I pulled off the lonely strip of highway in a desperate search, for a hot cup of coffee and a bit of food that might sustain me through . . . more
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February 01, 2006 09:03 PM EST --
This is in response to David L's challenge to write something with the two words "Bottled Promise." Here is my attempt!
I have a bottled promise
I keep it tied inside
because . . . more
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