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Bad Fall – Part 90
Originally posted on Dellani Oakes:
As they read through the journals, all hell breaks loose once again. Rochelle takes the call, though Marka can’t hear the other person over the alarm. “What’s going on?” Marka yelled. “Blondie escaped,” Rochelle said. “She took out her guards. No clue how. She was supposed to be shackled.” “Was…
Flowers for Lobelia: Chapter One – Scene 2
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Sometimes I almost think I’ve got it all figured out. Like there’s this map in my head of the way things are, or the way things ought to be; but then things happen to fuck the map up, little things that just don’t seem…
Poetic Thought for the Day (8/24/2014): The Quest for Meaning
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
—Say it, no ideas but in things— nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident— split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained— secret—into the body of the light! – William Carlos Williams, Paterson What is an idea?…
The Girl on the Swing
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Photograph by ©Sandra a. Marte of forever777 ? a hand that gathers time within its sleeves, the broken myth of love and desperation, sleeps upon the swing, rocking to the rhythms over the earth it’s victim, and life like a young girl moves barefoot upon…
Thoughts on Objects and Kairos: A discussion….
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
? I’d agree in terms of nature, but do you also mean concrete nouns, such as a table or a chair? If that’s the case, then I’m afraid I’m with Williams! – Nicola Ann Roberts In a pleasant exchange with Nicola Ann Roberts of…
Flowers for Lobelia: Chapter One: Scene 3
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
I cannot say I’m a bitter man, I think it goes much deeper than that and escapes such notions of emotion as hate and anger; it’s something else, something more primal, locked into one’s life like two pit bulls cornered in rage, slung into a cage or…
My Book Advertising Dilemma
Originally posted on Author Mark W Sasse:
I am not a great marketer when it comes to promoting my books. I’ve learned a lot over the last year a half, but in some ways it feels like I haven’t made any progress. I understand that book advertising, especially for new independent authors, is a long…
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