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even the embers have eyes: The end of Plead/Cleave
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Even the embers have eyes. Musings, commentary, and other unoriginal blather. The end of Plead/Cleave. My 57,444-word YA romantic adventure novel Plead. Which I wrote in high school) evolved over the past few months into the just-finished 45,760- word semiromantic novella Cleave. What an adjective string! I wrote the ending. Last night, and this afternoon I cleaned it all up: standardized the chapter titles, gave all of the chapters epigraphs from Three Sisters. And the epilogue/foreshadowing prologue.
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Short Stories: September 2009
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To the Crooked Green Branch: Three Years of Yearning for a Phantom. Oh, bitter Unripe One—. On a dull silver Platter of. Glimpsed in the Womb. Not yet cemented in Purpose—. Queued at the Kiln. To refine and set. In Preparation for Sale. Teasing dewy Eyes—. Locks of shiny Hair still. Conceal the Nakedness of your Head. 8226; • • •. I was not raised to need or to be needed. I am the reason I laugh and I am the reason I cry. I expect laissez-faire love. Your ego is not my responsibility. Hold thou, Eidolon!
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Short Stories: August 2009
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The Winter of Our Disillusion, January. December 26, 2008, 11:17 am. Daddy and Mommy waited to drop the bomb on us until after Christmas: we’re losing the house! And we’re splitting up. How could they have hidden this for so long? Anyway, Mommy and Daddy and Colton are going to stay with Papa Greg and Nana Deb, and Sissy and I are going to stay with Aunt Sherry in WASHINGTON! Can you believe it? I mean, this totally sucks, and I have NO. Idea how I’d going to pack all. My stuff in a week, but WASHINGTON.
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Short Stories: June 2010
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How I Got My Lucky Test Pencil. Emsp; I have another friend named Emily who’s anorexic. She likes hanging out with me in public because I make her look skinny. I actually tried to be anorexic once. We watched a movie about it in health class, and I was like, that looks like a fast way to lose weight. Some of the girls in the video lost thirty pounds in like a month! The next day, in health class, I learned that what I had done was called bingeing. Almost died. I had my graphing calculator, my good wh...
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Short Stories: July 2010
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Captain Caleb and Bug Boy’s Za-Wow! 8195; It is the first eastern lubber grasshopper that I’ve seen for realsies. It’s yellow with black circles and stripes on it, and it’s almost as long as my hand! I move my jar closer to it. 8195; When I’m lying on my tummy in the green grass looking at a bug, I feel like someone has shrunk me to bug-size. Would me and this grasshopper be friends if I was really the same size as it? The grasshopper doesn’t notice a thing. 8221; A boy’s body lands oof! 8195; We&#...
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Short Stories: Captain Caleb and Bug Boy’s Za-Wow! Adventure
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Captain Caleb and Bug Boy’s Za-Wow! 8195; It is the first eastern lubber grasshopper that I’ve seen for realsies. It’s yellow with black circles and stripes on it, and it’s almost as long as my hand! I move my jar closer to it. 8195; When I’m lying on my tummy in the green grass looking at a bug, I feel like someone has shrunk me to bug-size. Would me and this grasshopper be friends if I was really the same size as it? The grasshopper doesn’t notice a thing. 8221; A boy’s body lands oof! 8195; We&#...