The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy moisture moistened bodies and clothing, and people fanned and wiped at sweating faces trying to survive another bitch of a day as Harry and Marion peacefully passed the day sleeping in each others arms oblivious to the reality surrounding them.


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Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
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When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
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Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
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My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
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Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
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She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
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She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
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That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
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I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
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She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
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He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
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These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
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In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
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She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
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As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
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That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
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I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
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Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
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She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
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She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the pag...
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And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke ...
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The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.
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Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.
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I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh....
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They flew to avoid the horrors of land and sea, Daedalus and Icarus were for few moments free. Thoug...
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With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the not...
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He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could t...
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He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretc...
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Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops,...
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Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
And you a woman o...
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An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
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Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
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...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
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It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer...
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Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've ...
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