Surreal

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It is the night and noises are nearer Accustomed streets are rearranged. A familiar wolf dog eyes me queerly Its erratic head movements appear strange.   I pause to listen for what it hears And a tuff of night wind scoops me into the sky. I am pursued by carnivorous dogs How can they climb […]

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My Identity as a Writer

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 The Daily Post prompt—Identity I’d been trying to decide how I wanted to represent myself in public. Two years ago, in an article for the Guardian, author Catherine Nichols told how submitting her manuscript under a male pseudonym brought her more than eight times the number of responses she had received under her own name. […]

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Cacophony Settles

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Steve didn’t know what scared him most—the screaming, “reeeeeeeeeeee,- reeeeeeeeeeee,” of the siren or the careening ambulance that almost knocked him down. A bit shaken, he stepped back onto the curb. He’d wait for the next light. Two-way traffic poured unto the boulevard, close enough for him to touch. Car stereos blasted pop, classical, and […]

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