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ID It’s Sunday morning. I have a couple of hours to waste, and the news isn’t all that interesting. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot for the annual August family cookout. I’m not even on the hook for anyth...

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My love, It is past my birthday now. I have made it to 57. In my teens and early twenties I really didn’t think I would see the end of my forties. We think we choose a path until we find our s...

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Trip Around the Sun Holy shit Martina has beautiful eyes! I started the day doing what I do this time of year. Watered the plants. Wondered when I should mow the lawn. I have a comfortable rh...

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Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...

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Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...

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My task here and now is to describe the author’s use of craft elements. My paired novels are Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The most obvious craft of the two nov...

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I was driving home from the beach yesterday afternoon, listening to the radio. During the commercial break the DJ decided to go off script on one of the male enhancement products he was shilling...

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Strangest thing about memories. In 1997 I was working in the Electronic Warfare Coordination Cell (EWCC) at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Dal Molin, Vicenza Italy during the Bosni...

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I got feedback from my class on Caretaker 4. Some minor critiques on language and awkwardness. Nothing I wasn’t expecting. I pounded that story out in a few hours and only edited it once. Wha...

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Louder Than Ever You were there in the front seat Windows down, we were burnin’ It was just like a movie scene Those dashboard lights and your pale blue eyes Cutting through me… It is cool, fogg...

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I’m fifteen for a moment Caught in between ten and twenty And I’m just dreaming Counting the ways to where you are At fifteen I was in love, or rather a fifteen version of infatuation. Cathy. ...

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Late The air is fragrant here in mid coast Maine this time of year. I’d like to say it reminds me of my childhood, but the hiccupy way my life worked out I was barely here. Born here. Likely t...

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Boots Boots Boots Interesting conversation on an AOCS group regarding SERE school. We were given strict orders that we were never to talk about anything that happened there. In hindsight it was...

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Friday I was awake at 230am. By 300am I was out of bed. Ungraceful, tumbling thoughts bounced around in my brain. They went all the way from the beginning until the end. But the middle, oh t...

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It isn’t a surprise to me but I was accepted into the MFA program. I grunted out an eight page short story as a writing sample. The primary reason I would even apply is I am being mercenary. ...

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I first heard this song about the time I turned 20. I had been on my own since 17. And I never seemed to stop moving. Every time I went home I was turning around and leaving. I’m thankful tha...

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Just three days and I’m missing you more than I thought I would i missing you more than I like to say I’m hanging on a hope swinging from a rope It’s all a shame My biggest mistake was letting y...

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The Age of Adeline I just watched that movie again. It breaks my heart every time. I don’t know why Hollywood is trying so hard to make it go away, for a five year old movie it should be all ov...

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It is only when I am in the quiet I realize how noisy is my soul. I have a YouTube playlist that is all Celtic New Age stuff. I can feel my breathing start to synchronize with the in and out of t...

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Pray your gods who ask you for your blood For they are strong and angry jealous ones Or lay upon my altar now your love I fear my time is short There are armies moving close Be quick, my love… E...

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I edited and edited and edited until I didn’t know what else to cut out to get back to 10 pages. Both writing samples and my “personal statement” have now been submitted for review. It’s not like...

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ALS I heard this morning that my mother’s cousin, Nikki passed away. I guess that makes her my cousin in some kind of once removed way. She was diagnosed with ALS last fall. That is an awful, ...

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She’s so mean but I don’t care I love her eyes and her wild wild hair Dance to the beat that we love best Heading for the nineties Living in the wild wild west The first time I heard that song I...

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Robots Don’t Get Homesick Starting GoT from the beginning of last season. The final season starts soon. Two freaking years it took. We have a storm heading this way. Just going to be a sloppy ...

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In 1995 I was just out of the fleet. Working for the Commodore at the wing. I wrote at least a dozen instructions in that two years, between the Bosnia conflict and 7 months in Italy. It always...

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