Category: THIN AIR ONLINE
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“The Night I Stopped Writing Poetry” by December Verbout
I need to scream because all I want to do is write one more poem about her laugh lines before they are gone forever. Write her the ending she so longingly deserves. But as I sat on the front porch steps, all I could hear was the distant, uninviting cicadas.
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“Pyramid of the Bees” by Charles Haddox
“Do not touch what belongs to the dead,” it hums in an aged, monotonous bee voice, as it enters the crack in the wall and the impenetrable darkness beyond.
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“Why My Matches Aren’t Responding to Me on the Dating App” by Madison Jozefiak
Maybe the problem is that the men are just never real enough.
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“Someday when I’m dead I’ll look back on all” by Gale Acuff
Someday when I’m dead I’ll look back on all this from the future or Eternity is what it might be and wonder how I made it through life but suddenly remember that I didn’t
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“Honeymoon” by Adam D. Weeks and Ellery Beck
How to call these sheets a city, how to reach out and touch.
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“Passerby” by Samuel Hasler
I listened to the voice of self-preservation. We continued walking. This time I did not look back.
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“The Him Sim” by Aarron Sholar
But there’s no need for him now because that him is me, and I am more like him than I was before.
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