Love was dismissed without severance payment.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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LOVE & ABANDONMENT // Six Word Story #77
Overly sugared words promoted love decay.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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LOVE & ABANDONMENT // Six Word Story #76
The tree carved love into flesh.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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GUEST POST // Puddles by Caroline A. Slee
I remember galoshes
Knee high
A sign of fun
As we raced
On our short legs
To find the puddles
Rainstorms
Turned our worlds
Into new and messy delights
Leaping
Like so many cannonballs
To bring our feet
Full force
Into waiting puddles
Years beyond
And climates away
Galoshes are just an unfamiliar word
Garden shoes and flip flops
Rule the day
Until the downpours hit
And children stare
At filling puddles
At a loss
For what to do
They step – gingerly, carefully –
Into waiting water
Torn between shock
And fun
The ghosts
Of all of those rain slickers
And rubber boots
Echoing laughter
Down memory’s paths
by CAROLINE A. SLEE
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night shift charley (an old watchman’s shrift)
why’d i make him climb all that way
up fifty-five flights of goddam stairs
i didn’t need to break my only neck
in pursuit of prey in the month of may
why’d i make him muck in dung and clay
down sixty-six steps of slippy trails
i didn’t have to snap my only coccyx
in pursuit of prey in trial bay
why’d i make him jump into the fray
against seventy-seven blood streaked fists
i didn’t like to choke on my only teeth
in pursuit of prey when he fell that day
just who was that bolter anyway
what had he done that demanded death
i have soiled my only soul
in pursuit of prey i didn’t want for prey
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2020
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