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39 Stories

  • Crusader Rabbit by MichaelPollick
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    I picked up my first stray when I was five, and it promptly died. He was a fine catch, as strays go - Strong in spirit, eminently playful, relatively grateful; But he soon discovered the highway the hard way, And I discovered that traffic does not slow down for grieving boys.
  • Breath of a Child's Undoing by MichaelPollick
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    Spring and breeze and such were oh so powerful then- I fiddled and I fiddled and I fiddled while Rome was still smoking; I danced and I whittled and I climbed and I giggled, and drank the finest of barrelled rainwater.
  • Believer's Guide to Drifting by MichaelPollick
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    On the one hand, we have this couple-so young, so connected, so grounded. The balloon they released together into the Memphis air held two cards in tow as it found its way between their hands and the balloon maker's place.
  • Auxilliaries by MichaelPollick
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    The five older ladies have poured their tea again, And look to each other for recognition. This has been quite a summer, yes it has, And Charles and William and my boy Walter Have really taken a shine to their new garden, Says one, steadying her cup for emphasis.
  • Gate Knowledge by MichaelPollick
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    This is where the desperate stitches begin to take hold - In the wary edges of unproven cloth; In the delicate fears of virtuous women, In the fevered robes of noble soldiers.
  • Washing Day by MichaelPollick
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    she never once minded the dust, as he carried them both into town, his mind filled with thoughts of discounted hardware.
  • Surprise Makeover by MichaelPollick
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    we tried to stay away from anything plum, which looks so garish in the cold fog of authority, as the neighbors report nothing new between those two.
  • Mother's Day  by NIKHILESHMISHRA7
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    After achieving puberty how young hearts starts chasing love when they are first allowed to step out of the house in the society. When they go schools and colleges they interact with so many people. Their excited and desperate hormones generates mixed feelings and emotions at the same time. They fight with some they fall in love with some. They get distracted by those glittering eyes, cute smiles and pale skins. Heart breaks, bestie, pinky swear and many more things are their daily routine stuff. They also face body shaming, social media shaming and double standards of people. They finally feel low and weak. They get depressed and disheartened. So on the occasion of mother's day I'm penning down a short message to the young hearts.
  • Poetry in my head by SkyeJC
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    Just expressing my mind.
  • Haiku by MichaelPollick
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    #1 Darkness, and what stays Falls too close to the heart-Poor enough for beggars.
  • Sea of Reeds by MichaelPollick
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    My gas-stained hands touch her steel, and for a moment all the world seems unemployed. (I stand in a hole reamed out by greedy oresmen, and silently wait for their own untimely closings.)
  • Immunes by MichaelPollick
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    and with each passing day he shoulders the weight, as if he were the only strongman left in his own heart's circus-
  • Caterpillar Poem by MichaelPollick
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  • Cambodian Music by MichaelPollick
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    Pol Pot's deflowered now who used to ride a water- smooth buffalo and kill onetwothreefourfive million traitors Justlikethat -- Jeezus, he was an awful liar, and what I'd like to know is how do you like your despot now, mister Death?
  • Atticus Rests by MichaelPollick
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    We should all sweat long enough to meet the man who beat the law of averages. This man is not the sum of his words, but the total of his actions. The books grow colder, the papers scatter, the disciples pray elsewhere; but the teacher (oh! the teacher) is still with us.
  • Pearl Killers by MichaelPollick
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    The Allegheny is an ancient river by most standards- You'll find plenty of evidence that shells once ruled the Earth; It was on this river that my Dad used his first Pearl Killer.
  • Love and Lagniappe by MichaelPollick
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    This is how easily two stiff souls can learn to bend, And pivot around the mulberry times Like dancers, defining their time and space.
  • Plane Wrecks by MichaelPollick
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    Leaving Iowa behind simply cleared the mind of many a pop idol; Farmers' sons and factories' daughters loved to twist and bellow, flaming out to immoral race records and jungle beats, backlashing furiously in their mudstained carnival velvet.
  • Jakarta races ahead despite challenges by jdave2274
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