• Originally posted on A Way With Words: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. God did many wondrous and mysterious things Blessing a people to bless others Delivering them from slavery to a Promised Land. Rescuing them from self-destruction Showing them mercy from everlasting to everlasting.   Then, some time ago, God…

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  • Originally posted on Tananarive Due Writes: UPDATE 8/30: On my way to Marianna, Florida, with my father, husband and son.  Exhumations will begin. The remains of the Lost Boys, including my mother’s uncle, will soon be brought into the light.  ORIGINAL POST: ———————— Why do you write horror?  How can horror fiction be escapism?  That…

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  • Hope (5/30)

    wild is the wind which torments screen shields. i am witness to the anomaly of april snow showers which, while not rain, will still bring may flowers.

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  • four am thunder and thoughts: fear. strong glass/soft water. electronic impasse. no memorializing mother nature’s fury while early morning media tows the line. five am thoughts of thunder and the battle that has come. scrimmages between mohawk boy and me about the mohawk dropping seeds: isn’t it interesting? everyday i direct you to comb your…

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  • I am way behind with Napowrimo but here I go, attempting to catch up!   An Indian man and woman who I think are a couple until the distance between extends beyond what is proper for a woman must walk five steps behind her man scenario. Moving in the opposite direction is a well-hipped white…

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  • Some time in the last two years, I decided to undertake a reading of epics (The Odyssey), verse novels (Omeros and Prophets, by Derek Walcott and Kwame Dawes, respectively). I called myself doing research for my own verse novel. Well. I got about more than half way through The Odyssey before I gave up the…

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  • Originally posted on Fully Awake and Alive: Image © Alicia Khoo Coffee, cigarettes and croissants, Parisian petit-dejeuner. Pickpockets not optional but complimentary. You won’t see them coming until you get home and realize your underwear is missing. I meet a curator from a museum in Venezuela, she is here for a world conference on what to do with the evolution and…

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  • I am against terror in any of its manifestations. Any of its manifestations? How many manifestations can terror have? Isn’t it strictly Islamic fundamentalist? Growing up as a black immigrant girl child in Boston during the late 70’s and 80’s, I have to say no. In fact, I have to say more than no. I…

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  • Originally posted on word pond: The Four Steps Required to Keep Monsanto OUT of Your Garden.

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