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| badlydrawnstickman's Blogs in December 2008
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Never.
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It's kind of funny the thoughts that can go through the mind at four in the morning while the headllights of the car pick out a white-shadowed way through the black flatness of night, pierced occasionally by the prying, violent eyes of other vehicles.
The radio droned on its hip-hop......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-01 21:01:54 |
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Worthless.
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He sat facing her and his finger tips were crisp with tension like the smooth, starched, linen tablecloth. The restaurant atmosphere was subdued but no more so than the mood at their table where the single candle in its red, stained-glass holder was unable to fill the void between them with......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-06 19:17:22 |
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Known.
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The party is crowded and punctuated by raucous and forced laughter from people far too eager to show what a good time they are having. On the dance floor, the couples strain and bend lasciviously against one another; a gruesome parody to an engorged beat. The air is full of the sound of......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-07 15:38:22 |
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Missing.
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The phone trilled softly and distantly in his ear and he stood, expectant and rife with excitement, waiting to hear the soft purr of her response on the line.
It trilled again; the sound on the line crackled slightly with the static of many, many miles of trunk and cable, satellites and......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-13 21:00:00 |
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The Note.
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The bus comes up the busy street thrust before a gusty and bitter wind. The man at the bus stop watches it approach from the sheltering, wind shadow of a large tree and then steps into the chilling blast as the bus coasts to a stop and the doors open with a pneumatic sigh. He tramps with......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-15 14:04:22 |
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the note
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Hope.
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"What is 'hope'?"
Sophia's voice comes to me through a cotton-batting insulation of warmth and drowsiness.
"Sorry?" My voice croaks low in my throat, unwilling to raise itself or disturb the humid silence of the bedroom.
We are lying together pleasantly sated and......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-20 13:30:57 |
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Earthquakes.
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My studio is not much more than a glorified closet; a place where I can retreat and be alone with my jumbled, often dark and confused, thoughts. It is where I write. My laptop is usually balanced precariously on some books upon the little writing desk. Books lean in teetering stacks like......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-21 20:00:00 |
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Christmas Eve.
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Another Christmas Eve’ in the city is drawing on and the gaiety and festivity of it is almost palpable in the air. Is it the Spirit of Christmas, infusing everyone and everything with its joyous magic? I don't know, but I feel my heart fill with deep emotion at the sight of it.
From......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-21 20:57:34 |
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Christmas Eve
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Roadhouse.
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Eighteen wheels roll to a halt with the harsh hiss and squeal of escaping air pressure and the big rig stops in a cloud of hot, dry dust rising from the packed and sun-baked surface beside the highway. I jam the shift down and lock the brakes, still feeling the inertial pull of the 800......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-25 21:00:00 |
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Sight (I).
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Mumbling and flaming red: these are the words that perfectly describe my grandmother.
My grandmother is old: older than the rocking-chair she insists on, with its cushions carefully positioned to protect her bone-thin and wasted limbs; older than the Bible, with its thumbed and frayed......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-12-28 20:30:00 |
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