The holiday Monday crowd in my regular coffee shop is good-natured and relaxed. I enter wearing my usual black jeans, black shirt and All-Stars, black also. Today, I have a black jean... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-19 12:56:15
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My tongue is numb & fumbling; I cannot find the words to soothe your pain: and the distance widens becomes a gulf we cannot see to cross. Turn away instead, hiding behind... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-18 20:41:50
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When Edie enters the party, all eyes turn to her and there is a collective intake of breath which robs the room of air and makes everyone a little giddy. Mine are among the eyes that turn... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-17 12:44:20
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A long time ago and far away at the edge of the world, there lived... "A King!" shouts one. "An Evil Witch!" shouts out another. No, dear children, it was neither a... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-15 12:49:37
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The 'tomato incident' had made Ed and his Grandmother even closer, and they passed a quiet winter together playing checkers, doing jigsaw puzzles and having tomato soup made from store-bought... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-12 12:25:11
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The sky hangs heavy, still and grey, threatening rain over the Virginia countryside. Tricia drives distactedly in her ancient pickup truck, speeding along the broken asphalt of a desolate... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-05 12:23:48
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"Hey! I just had a crazy thought. What if you could change your past; would you do it?" The suggestion comes from my best mate, Jack Perkins. We are at the pub, The Hound and... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-04 13:21:46
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The photograph is like a window through time and memory. The old man sits alone on a park bench with his overcoat pulled tightly around him to guard against the late winter chill. The... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-05-02 12:41:46
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Miss. Erica Three Parkside Drive New York City ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- CONGRATULATIONS - WONDEROUS SUCCESS AS... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-28 13:55:36
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I don't like feeling this way. It is the feeling of being disconnected from everything. That bothers me. I know that I should enjoy some things and dislike other things. At this time of... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-27 13:39:26
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Night falls and darkness encloses us in it's silken rapture. Turn out the lights and lie down with me. Chase away these hauntings that linger from the day. Only in the darkened womb of the... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-21 12:24:35
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If you could see what I see staring unblinking into the void of time you would tear out your eyes prefer a wave of blackness to a sea of unyielding truth If you could hear what I... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-21 12:22:15
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“Hey! I just had a crazy thought. What if he's advertising?” Detective Sargeant Duncan, my older and wiser partner, looks up from a messy sheaf of reports on his desk.... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-20 09:35:00
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The event point is where all things become possible; it may only be moments away and change your life forever. Event points are moments in time where, due to the interaction of past... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-14 13:34:13
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“Hey! I just had a crazy thought. What if...?” “There isn't time for your damn stories!” Sophie shouts to me without a pause. Dozens of cops XXXXX their weapons in a... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-04-06 21:10:40
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It is like slamming into a cold, steel wall when the water hits me. It jars my body and my senses and I awake from a half-sleep biting through the tip of my tongue to stop from screaming. I... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-20 18:16:04
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The man with the finely tailored suit and bright aluminium attaché case enters the top floor office and the woman, peering intently at the computer screen, stands up sharply. On the roof... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-17 14:58:17
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Bend until you break, like a prisoner on a wheel. Bend to my whim and will, like a sapling to the wind. Bend until you break. Flurries of fists. “I will always love... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-14 20:49:44
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Stark and skeletal, barren and bleak; a winter landscape in shifting shadow. Denuded trunks and limbs stilled in twisted parody. Icy ground below; a frozen prison. No sound... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-03 20:37:12
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I round the corner, coffee in hand, and my eye immediately picks her out from the rest of the scurrying lunch crowd. It is as though, in that moment, the rest of the world falls silent and... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-01 20:22:04
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There was no way it could be foreseen; none of it. It almost happened too fast for the senses to register. The black SUV came hurtling down the busy city street at an impossible rate of speed,... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-02-25 17:20:31
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Clumsy, drunken and fumbling, we fall together; a mere distraction. Revelling in unknown flesh and too oft repeated rituals; destroy a moment of beauty. Grappling, we are as... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-02-24 21:03:23
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The huge, black-painted, wrought iron gate stands open and I walk through it into a land of silence. The gentle, rolling hills before me are covered in fresh snow and dotted by the dark,... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-02-22 15:26:34
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Frames in time defining life. Each one distinct from the before, an immutable past, and the after, a new scene. Click. Characters in tableau; breath is silent, a tear hangs... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-02-21 20:43:43
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Flickering, feeble, fleeting. Disease, death, darkness. Ghostly, grieving, ghastly. Prostrate, pale, pall. Marble, mortification, miasma. Time, terrible, tomb.... Read More
Posted by: badlydrawnstickman on 2008-02-21 20:41:13
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