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  • Escape from Madness

    Escape from Madness

    A monkey makes a noose
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    Gregory Cody
    Jul 5
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    The Dreaded Interview Question

    The Dreaded Interview Question

    GiaB prompt #2–22: hobbies
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    Carolyn Hastings
    Jul 4
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    The Next Robin Williams

    The Next Robin Williams

    The audition’s a formality
    Go to the profile of Susan Sagarin
    Susan Sagarin
    Jul 3
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    Concrete Swamp

    Concrete Swamp

    Creatures invade a small Miami home
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    Gregory Cody
    Jul 3
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    Jim Dutton
    Jul 2

    POETRY

    Sunday Dinner

    Enmeshed and entangled

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    4 responses
    Go to the profile of Jay Squires
    Jay Squires
    Jul 2

    Written From the Other Side

    A cautionary tale

    At 10:18 PM, on a Sunday evening, four days prior to this writing, I was about one minute from being dead. Maybe a minute and a half. For sure, though, the dying process had already begun.

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    5 responses
    Go to the profile of Deborah Barchi
    Deborah Barchi
    Jun 29

    The Pearl Among the Pebbles

    Use your fingertips, not your eyes

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    1 response
    Go to the profile of Gregory Cody
    Gregory Cody
    Jun 27

    Shouting through the Bars

    An abused bird reflects on the murder of a monkey…

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    2 responses
    Go to the profile of Aimée Gramblin
    Aimée Gramblin
    Jun 26

    Poem Time Travel

    October City

    Tulsa, 2006

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    8 responses
    Go to the profile of Theodore McDowell
    Theodore McDowell
    Jun 25

    The First Thrust of Death

    After my traumatic brain injury

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    2 responses
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