Tag: writing
member name: Thomm Quackenbush
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January 23, 2008 04:19 PM EST --
"Hey kid!" she chirped at Shane from the door.
Shane yelped, "Ashlei?"
"Hee! 'Ashlei!' It's been a little while since anyone called me that. I go by Ash lately. . . .
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June 17, 2007 07:52 PM EDT --
Songs About Ghosts
The problem seems to be in telling the spirits that I intend to take a picture. Had I just snapped one, I imagine they would not have felt the need to immediately drain all my battery . . .
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May 28, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
too precious for its own good
Rejection is nearly as steady as death and taxes, rejections of the mortal coil and fiscal comfort themselves. Weeks ago, Emily faced the rejection of losing at Olympic . . .
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September 27, 2006 08:58 PM EDT --
Last...
Finishing cutting the sacred circle into the air with her knife and drawing down a cone of protection, Roselyn knelt and rubbed the oil - a mixture of sandalwood, patchouli and myrrh, along with . . .
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October 09, 2006 02:33 PM EDT --
Through the wonders of the internet (a bunch of computers connected together. This actually exists in your time, but only the military and a few colleges use it), I have discovered a way to send you, me . . .
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May 20, 2007 09:56 PM EDT --
Unwashed Strangers
Emily has never before come on my recent excursions to New Paltz -- they generally occuring because she is otherwise occupied and I refuse to be alone -- so I feel the need to point . . .
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September 22, 2006 03:19 PM EDT --
Transition
The only constant is change. I merely wish less change were toward the commoditization of childhood memories.
My family went on our yearly apple picking at Keepsake Farms, presently leased . . .
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November 20, 2006 10:16 PM EST --
Then Who's on First?
Written in the second person for no good reason.
Eric smiles his puppet grin at you and says you look like -- and he pauses for a moment, balancing insult against compliment . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:52 PM EST --
Shane dreamt. All was silent and distant, sepia filtered and muted. She stood in the center of a field, posture strange. No, not a field but the ruins. Unlike her usual dreams, Shane watched herself from . . .
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March 06, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
Last...
Roselyn stood over Shane's body, buried under a cairn of pillows. She tapped Shane with her shoe, not expecting a reaction and thus not being disappointed. "How long has she been this . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:15 PM EDT --
cloud of ironic detachment
The only thing that keeps people from thinking I am insane is my inaction. I emerge into the high school cafeteria and for a moment I want to yell, "This is the only . . .
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March 08, 2008 09:46 PM EST --
Cave Drawing
I sent Melanie a story I had submitted into a magazine seeking fantasy stories. It is something that I have toyed around with since my freshman year in college, though . . .
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September 17, 2006 09:20 PM EDT --
International Education
Emily realizes too late that she doesn't have her expected buffer day to process that she would be returning to school. She had such grand plans of staying in her pajamas . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:42 PM EST --
Far from Woodstock
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March 05, 2007 12:14 PM EST --
From page 23$()@#g@ of the Codex:
There are some who say that visions are simply neurochemistry, the misfiring of a brain starved of oxygen, water, or entertainment. There are some who say, just as correctly, . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:35 AM EST --
Shane stood, threw down the papers she held, and walked a dozen feet around. Not-V gave no reaction, did not so much as raise his eyes from the pile Shane created. She huffed back and stood before the . . .
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October 29, 2006 09:08 PM EST --
New York State of Mind
We sit on the steps of the Silver Center at NYU. To my left someone has covered pumpkin colored vomit with a translucent plastic bag and it quickly causes me to fall into a conditioned . . .
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November 08, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
Virgil knocked on the heavy green door and waited. An announcement came over the speakers and he heard the clop of a student aide floors below beginning their nightly check for lingering patrons. He could . . .
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November 09, 2006 11:37 PM EST --
Shane was feeling far too awake to attempt sleep once she left the faculty tower. The coldness of the air against her exposed skin was too invigorating and stung far too keenly, though impotently. A quiet . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:50 PM EST --
Last...
Initially and despite his outburst threatening to kill someone who wasn't there, the only change against Jake was the removal of evidence from a crime scene. The police knew colleges in general . . .
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