satire and fiction
an original story
written by emma lohle 89 weeks 3 days 6 hours 54 minutes ago
she took a borrowed road
to find alittle something
worth bringing home
after looking through coke bottle glasses
seeing through a thin coke line
she entered a small town
that gave her what she was looking for:
a rash of shit and something to doze off to
a diamond and a bird....(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 89 weeks 3 days 7 hours 1 minute ago
"tilt your head back, it'll go down easier"
he says. a redemption- like proposition
i understand, because i do love him
i understand because everyday i watch him leave
get away from me.
spread himself miles in the places i cannot see
suspend this im willed to shout
teach me because hes complete....(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 89 weeks 3 days 7 hours 21 minutes ago
story makers
and music tellers
just dont feel
esteemed doesnt mean
aware
like the disasters.
messes. dirtbags.
sunk down by tylenol
words
to the hospital basement
where there's always time
for alittle mind games
and whispering.
their oh-so secrets
they're leaking themselves
like the disasters.
messes. dirtbags.
they are
faking it
even (more...)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 47 minutes ago
lets go.
this is the warrant for you. so we can finally- lets go. take me away from here, and lets walk the whole way.
i won't say a word, if you're not up for listening.
and i woun't drag my feet, if you don't want to leave a...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 58 minutes ago
it was meant for dancing slow on the backdrop of our humanity. and so we swayed. to look beyond the past in backwards to the haze covered snow. hardly even familiar with the rain, that's when the snow came. the same way it went. i hardly...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 1 hour 18 minutes ago
my heart, lost at wind
never stood a chance, not against:
anything going against. you.
i never could have lasted, if my final stand
weren't such a submission.
i wouldn't even be in this place:
it's nothing like home
i remember home because it looked like
Paris in the springtime, where i left...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 1 hour 25 minutes ago
this is sea country. bat country. blue country.
when it's a place about belonging: it's our country.
where you would ask too much and
i didn't know the word, but i knew the meaning
it's something about this country
and maybe it's that it's not a country at all
but a...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 1 hour 31 minutes ago
in an april i'll remember, she and i
sat under a street lamp in Paris
eating slowly and talking fast
with nothing but remembering you.
it went on and we talked and thought
and there was my best friend
who i was telling:
that i love you. and you love me...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 1 hour 39 minutes ago
i'll find you somewhere soon
deep in a summer foliage. we'll wander for hours
and i'll remember Paris, and the past
deep past, like where we're going.
i look up and see shadows of birds
and i am reminded of the light
and the way it strikes you, tints you
green through the...(more)
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an original story
written by emma lohle 57 weeks 5 days 12 hours 31 minutes ago
my spirit went to south bell
lithium in your presence, you control me
the me you said, you waited for
the me you lost, that night you sent my spirit
to south bell:
where the masks are sold and the pain is deep
and so you took me,
perfect like the woman...(more)
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a shared story
submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 5 days 17 hours 39 minutes ago
Doris Lessing had to wait until she was 87 to receive her Nobel Prize in literature last year; five young authors are being saluted a bit sooner. The National Book Foundation is paying tribute to these fiction writers younger than 35, chosen by previous National Book...(more)
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a shared story
submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 1 day 17 hours 40 minutes ago
In "Resurrection," Daniel Beaty's perky new poetry slam of a play about the hardness and softness of life for African American men, a 10-year-old science wiz spends hours with his chemistry set, trying to perfect a formula for the world's best herbal iced tea. The...(more)
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