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Drunk Monkeys

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We are looking for original fiction and poetry with strong character arcs and immersive description. Build worlds and break hearts.

There  is  this  hypnotic  symmetry  to  the  Harry  Potter  series  which  makes  it  especially  fascinating  to  obsessive-compulsive  minds  such  as  my  own.  

Snape Snape Severus Snape

If movies are a reflection of the times, then it’s easy to feel overcrowded. Even onscreen, it increasingly feels like there’s no space left to turn for solitude.

Outside the City Limits: An Appreciation for Civilization's End

Emotional Climate Report (after Tom Waits)

"The Golden Boy" is a true story about school, about isolation and self-discovery. The title of the story is inspired by the author's grandfather, whose name, Aurel, translates to "golden boy."

The Golden Boy

Do You Ever Have Thoughts Like This? If So, Do You Let Them Eat You Alive? 

This is a visual poem I created along with a line of original writing.

Freeze Frame

Zmorg and the Sun of Zmorg

Non-Fungible 

What Happened After the October 14, 1978, American Top 40 Countdown

Massage Poem

How shattering it is to be told by someone you consider a friend that they no longer have room for you in their life.

A Severing

Hugh Hefner, I Hope You Rot in Hell

WTF Michael Patrick King?

Ciao! Manhattan

big bird singing at his father's funeral

the blender

Bounce

Last Names

Broken Octopus Trap

Now More Than Ever

don’t lay me down 
under tornado green skies 

but let me dust gentle 
against oceans I’ve never seen ...

Don't Bury Me in Oklahoma

I pick it up and see that he chose a dinosaur book for tonight’s bedtime reading. Sweet. I love dinosaurs. I pick up the hardcover book. It’s an A-Z dinosaur book. A is for Ankylosaurus. B is for Brachiosaurus. Everything is going just fine until F. 

Drunk Monkeys

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