Tag: Six Sentence Story
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21 February: 6SS Passing
What happens When You Fall Asleep to Music My head is filledwith the long stretched stringsof a hundred violins. And one cello whose cry hangslike a suspended thunder storm. This percussionwill beat down the Gates of Troy. Clashing, those triple brass cymbals.Those spears of flames, fierce as joy. Out of Homer, these soundspass through me…
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14 February: for 6SS
Tides Her eyeshave more and moreof the past in them.Shadowsthat cover the cold oceanwith healing indifference. She wants totake to the shifting windsand lift anchor, be washed outon a tide. Washed outacross the sandbanksin a small boat with a taut sail. It’s a picture an innocent heart might draw. And there she wouldfind herself, and…
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4 November: Twenty-Two Seconds in 1974
Twenty-Two Seconds in 1974 Wake up, he whispers in her ear.She turns over, her eyes unwilling to release the last dusting of sleep.Those brown eyes of his; those brown eyes.And he says “Do you trust me?”“Do I trust the man who drugged me last night? No.” she says.And then she grins that sort of grin…
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