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StoryThe Dancing Sex Nuns of the Tenth Quadrant hadley211 years 9 months ago
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Empty Hands

By hadley on Mon, 12 Jan 2009

What silences can take their shape through this dull mist of morning rain? The slow black figures easing past on through the frosted grass to stand in stillness, verging on a pit
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Hesitancies of Reason

By hadley on Mon, 05 Jan 2009

A pause between the now, and then. Understanding, like these ancient rivers forming slowly. All the centuries of reaching desire. A need to hold. Formations carved by so many seasons
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Lost Names

By hadley on Mon, 29 Dec 2008

An enemy makes life simple. Drunk on heroes and legends, uniforms and marching songs. As if there were not enough ordinary tragedies for them, they marched off into history
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Birds

By hadley on Mon, 22 Dec 2008

With hands that flutter like trapped birds, she sees only the bars of her slow-rusting cage each time she looks up, searching for the sky. Preferring to look down and see the birds
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Candle Flames And Butterflies

By hadley on Mon, 15 Dec 2008

Would you like to see this thought start out burning like the yellow-golden flame on the white candle, skittering and stuttering in the soft breeze drifting through the open cottage window?
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