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I have 76 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 53394 times and one story has been cherrypicked.

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Stephen David Jeffery

My stories

Eye for one

Listen to me and think what you will say, Because I only have eyes for one. Guess what, that's you. I don't really know myself well enough, To pursue this little game we play, But I know every time you smile I know you.

Here's Forever

Every time I think about you I feel so empty, And when you're not here the voices get louder. I need to kill this numbness, It cripples, It punishes, Reduces me to tears, And still I find no answers to my prayers, But its a sad cage you keep me in, With wretched promises of sand, Where everything I try to grasp just crumbles in my hand.

Kerplunk

People pinball's what it's called, Bouncing off the walls, I wish I had something to do, But no one ever calls, And when they do I'm there in body, But never am in mind, For as my eyes begin to stray,

All dried up

I hate you, You cut me, You think you know me, But I don't know you, Burn me, burn me down, Bleed me dry of all emotions, They don't matter,

I Was With You That Night

In the grainy filmstock of a remembered summer eve, I was with you, while the world went on, My sun-bleached hair swept back, with browning tan, And you were so beautiful, my muse, Millions of tiny flies rising from the long grass,

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