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Life On Venus
Is this a true story?You’ll have to stick around and find out,dear reader,because, I, your beloved and unreliable narrator have always regaled you with my tall tales,the truth melting in my mouth as I weave between your reality and my own. Once upon a time,twice as long ago as you’d expect,silver lights shined through closed…
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Jesus Christ’s Seventeenth Birthday
By the age of seventeen,Jesus had gotten sick of his Birthday.The cake was okay,and the presents had improved since the days of the stable,but every birthday took him closer to an impossible task,something he didn’t feel able to do. It’s a bit much to wake up on your birthday,and realise you’re supposed to save the…
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Cool, Calming Silence
God,it’s your girl again,and she’s made a mess,but isn’t life just a sequence of mess and the stress of cleaning up?I’m just asking you not to give up on me yet. One day,I’ll pray, just to say hello,and there will be no crisis and no long wish lists,just a cool, calming silence…Just not today,because I’m…
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The Truth, On National Coming Out Day.
I have known I was a lesbian since I was about ten, and it scared me to death. Well, I say that, but it was more that I knew I was interested in women, not men, but didn’t know what that really meant since I was about ten. More on why that was in a…
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Old Scratch and The Fatherless Fawn
Fatherless fawn,meeting Old Scratch at dawn,his mark etched down her back,his voice, vibrating in the earth, disturbing and disrupting the plants and the worms. She was a difficult child,daughter of lies,lost under the lights,an angel that never had the chance to fall,fated to stay, stuck on the ground where she was born. She was watched,…